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1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300
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Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 300.
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"Originally presented at the "Third International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia" ('LENCA-3') held at Tomsk State Pedagogical University in Tomsk, Russian Federation, during June 27-30, 2006"--Foreword. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; SUBORDINATION, COORDINATION; SPEECH REPORT CONSTRUCTIONS IN AINU; THE SYNTAX AND PRAGMATICS OF ADVERBIAL CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; NULL ARGUMENTS IN KUMYK ADVERBIAL CLAUSES; FINITE STRUCTURES IN FOREST ENETS SUBORDINATION; GRAMMATICIZATION AND RELATIVE CLAUSES IN EASTERN KHANTY; TOWARD A SEMANTIC TYPOLOGY OF COORDINATION; QUESTION PARTICLES OR WHAT?; THE DEVELOPMENT OF DECONVERBAL PREPOSITIONS; IMPERATIVES IN CONDITIONAL AND CONCESSIVE SUBORDINATE CLAUSES. |
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Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Subordinate constructions -- Congresses.
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Northern Russia. |
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Language and languages. |
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Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Coordinate constructions -- Congresses.
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Russia, Northern -- Languages -- Syntax -- Congresses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Vajda, Edward J.
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International Symposium on the Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (3rd : 2006 : Tomsk, Russia)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Subordination and coordination strategies in North Asian languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008 9789027248169 9027248168 (DLC) 2008030304 (OCoLC)234257167 |
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9789027290946 (electronic book) |
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9027290946 (electronic book) |
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1282104519 |
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9781282104518 |
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9027248168 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9789027248169 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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