20.3148, Books: Typology/Syntax/Morphology: van Lier

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Date: 15-Sep-2009
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Parts of Speech and Dependent Clauses: van Lier

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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:33:15
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Parts of Speech and Dependent Clauses: van Lier

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Title: Parts of Speech and Dependent Clauses 
Subtitle: A typological study 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Eva van Lier

Paperback: ISBN: 0097890783  Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

Linguistic typology studies the various ways in which languages map form
onto meaning. Thus, it identifies the different grammatical constructions
that languages use to express particular functional distinctions. The
present research is concerned with the typology of two construction types:
parts of speech and dependent clauses. These constructions are studied in a
sample of 50 languages from all-over the world. The study aims to
investigate the relationship between the functional possibilities of the
parts of speech and dependent clauses attested in each of these languages.

The parts of speech classes and dependent clauses of individual languages
are categorized according to their ability to express one or more of the
communicative functions of predication, reference, and modification. In
addition, dependent clauses are classified according to their internal
morpho-syntactic properties, distinguishing between balanced dependent
clauses, which are structurally similar to independent clauses, and
deranked dependent clauses, which have properties in common with nominal,
adjectival, or adverbial constructions.

The results of this study show that the degree of functional flexibility as
displayed by a language's parts of speech classes constrains the degree of
flexibility of its deranked dependent clauses, but not its balanced
dependent clauses. In particular, the deranked dependent clauses of a
language hardly ever show a higher degree of functional flexibility than
its parts of speech classes. Rather, deranked dependent clauses have either
an equal or a smaller range of functional possibilities as compared to the
parts of speech classes on which they are structurally modeled.

The findings are interpreted from a functionalist perspective: They shed
light on the way in which languages establish maximal functional
transparency, by dividing the workload of assigning specific functions to
specific structures over the lexical, morphological, and syntactic devices
available in their grammatical systems.

This study is of relevance for linguistic typologists who work in the
functionalist framework and who are interested in lexical and
morpho-syntactic categorization. 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English  (eng)

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