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Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas

Download or Read eBook Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas PDF written by Bernard Comrie and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9789027206831
ISBN-13 : 902720683X
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Book Synopsis Relative Clauses in Languages of the Americas by : Bernard Comrie

Book excerpt: Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nominalized relative clauses and no relative pronouns, while other typologically diverse languages tend to have relative clauses which are similar to main or independent clauses. Languages of the Americas, with their rich genetic diversity, have all been under the influence of European languages, whether Spanish, English or Portuguese, a situation that may be expected to have influenced their grammatical patterns. The present volume focuses on two tasks: The first deals with the discussion of functional principles related to relative clause formation: diachrony and paths of grammaticalization, simplicity vs. complexity, and formalization of rules to capture semantic-syntactic correlations. The second provides a typological overview of relative clauses in nine different languages going from north to south in the Americas.


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