Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology

by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon

This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a number of types of semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of consequence -- cause, result, and purpose -- which may be illustrated in English...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199600708
• ISBN13: 9780199600700
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"