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Published 2008.
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, ...
Published 2008.
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. Another topic treated in the volume is the historical development of conjunctions. The use of formulaic main clause constructions as projective units in conversation is another topic treated. The articles manifest both typological (Bulgarian, English, Estonian, Finnish, Indonesian, Japanese, and Spanish) and theoretical (discourse-functional, interactional, historical and generative) breadth.
