Connectivity in Grammar and DiscourseJochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein, Lukas Pietsch John Benjamins Publishing, 2007 - 465 pages In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual perspectives the focus of investigation is on the grammatical architecture of a number of linguistic devices that interconnect units of text and discourse. The volume is organized along central concepts: A general section deals with connectivity in language change and language acquisition, subdivisions are devoted to pronouns, topics and subjects, the role of finiteness in text and discourse, coordination and subordination and particles, adverbials and constructions. The editors' preface introduces connectivity as an object of linguistic research. |
Contents
Connectivity as an object of linguistic research in multilingualism | 1 |
The case of Japanese | 21 |
Contact connectivity and language evolution | 51 |
On the recurrence of functionword borrowing in contact situations | 75 |
German | 101 |
Distribution and function of clitic object pronouns in popular 16th18th | 139 |
Nominative subjects of nonfinite clauses in HibernoEnglish | 165 |
Text construction text subdivision | 187 |
Discourse coordination in Turkish monolingual and TurkishGerman bilingual | 291 |
A bilingual approach to the study | 329 |
Linking constructions in discourse across | 345 |
Particle to in utterancefinal position | 367 |
Reported speech in interpreter | 395 |
Matrix constructions | 419 |
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Connectivity by means of finite elements in monolingual and bilingual | 199 |
Alternative subordination strategies in Turkish | 231 |
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Common terms and phrases
action adverbial allora analysis appear aspects bilingual borrowing child clauses clitic combination communicative compared complementizer complex conjunctions connectivity constructions context contrast converb coordination corpus deictic discourse discourse markers discussion domain elements English event example expression fact field Figure findings finite forms frequent function German gerund given grammatical grammaticalization Greek hearer important indicates interaction interpreter involved işte Italian Italy Japanese kind knowledge language linguistic linking marking matrix means monolingual narrative nominative noun object occur operative original particle patterns person placement position possible pragmatic present procedures processing pronouns propositional question realization refer Rehbein relation relative reported respect sentence shifts similar situation space speaker specific speech spoken structure subordinate clauses suggest syntactic Table temporal tion translation Turkish University utterance verb verbal