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The study of clause combining has been advanced lately by increasing interest in the study of actual language use in a typologically diverse set of languages. A number of received understandings have been challenged, among these the idea of clause combinations as being divisible into subordination and coordination in a binary fashion. Connected to this idea is the nature of conjunctions, a topic treated in several articles here. Couched within the larger issue of the nature of categoriality in language, several of the papers show that conjunctions are highly polyfunctional items, and that clause combining is only one of the uses to which speakers put them. Other topics treated in the volume are the historical development of conjunctions and the use of formulaic main clause constructions as projective units in conversation. The articles manifest both typological and theoretical breadth. They are based on data from Bulgarian, English, Estonian, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Spanish. The theoretical approaches include discourse-functional, interactional, historical and generative linguistics.

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Author:   Ritva Laury (University of Helsinki)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   80
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9789027229939

ISBN 10:   9027229937
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   29 October 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Laury, Ritva); 3. From subordinate clause to noun-phrase: Yang constructions in colloquial Indonesian (by Englebretson, Robert); 4. On quotative constructions in Iberian Spanish (by Etxepare, Ricardo); 5. Bulgarian adversative connectives: Conjunctions or discourse markers? (by Fielder, Grace E.); 6. Projectability and clause combining in interaction (by Hopper, Paul J.); 7. Conjunction and sequenced actions: The Estonian complementizer and evidential particle et (by Keevallik, Leelo); 8. Clause combining, interaction, evidentiality, participation structure, and the conjunction-particle continuum: The Finnish etta (by Laury, Ritva); 9. The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation (by Mulder, Jean); 10. Quotative tte in Japanese: Its multifaceted functions and degrees of subordination (by Okamoto, Shigeko); 11. Quoting and topic-marking: Some observations on the quotative tte construction in Japanese (by Suzuki, Ryoko); 12. Index of names; 13. Index of subjects

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