Asymmetric events:
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam J. Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Converging evidence in language and communication research v. 11
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Asymmetric Events; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Event chains and complex events; Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences; Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language; Spanish (de)queísmo; What does coordination look like in a head-final language?; Verb serialization as a means of expressing complex events in Thai; Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry; Subordination, nominalization, modification; Subordination in cognitive grammar; Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories; Asymmetry reversal
The book introduces the concept of asymmetric events, an important concept in language and cognition, which, for the first time in linguistic literature, is identified in a more systematic way and analyzed in a number of different languages, including typologically or genetically unrelated ones. Asymmetric events are two or more events of unequal status in an utterance and papers in the volume present ways in which a linguistic description of main events in a sentence is different (morphologically, syntactically, discursively) from a description of backgrounded events. The prototypical asymmet
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 287 pages)
ISBN:9027238995
9027291020
9789027238993
9789027291028

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