Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse : Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson /

Other Authors: Noonan, Michael.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative; Participles in Tsez; Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English; Denial and the construction of conversational turns; On the embodied nature of grammar; The symmetry of counterfactuals; Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations; Hendiadys and auxiliation in English; 'Sentence' in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse; Some issues concerning the origin of language; Are subordinate clauses more difficult?*