Subordination
ISBN13: 9780199252794ISBN10: 0199252793
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376 pages
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Aug 2003,
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Description
This book presents a typology of subordination systems across the world's languages. Traditional definitions of subordination are based on morphosyntactic criteria, such as clausal embedding or non-finiteness. The book shows that these definitions are untenable in a cross-linguistic perspective, and provides a cognitively based definition of subordination.Features
- The broadest study available to date on the typology of subordination systems
- Establishes comprehensive implicational hierarchies describing the coding of complement, adverbial, and relative sentences at a single stroke
About the Author(s)
Sonia Cristofaro received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Pavia in 1998, and is now associate professor of Linguistics at the same university. Her main research areas include syntax, semantics and typology. Her publications include various articles on the syntax and semantics of complex sentences.
