Subordination in native South-American languages /:

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly d...

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Weitere Verfasser: Gijn, Rik van, Haude, Katharina, Muysken, Pieter
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language ; v. 97.
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Zusammenfassung:In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant pattern.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 315 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027287090
9027287090
9786613093158
6613093157
1283093154
9781283093156

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