30.3011, Books: Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity: Álvarez González, Estrada-Fernández, Chamoreau (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:03:02
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity: Álvarez González, Estrada-Fernández, Chamoreau (eds.)

 


Title: Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 126  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.126 


Editor: Albert Álvarez González
Editor: Zarina Estrada-Fernández
Editor: Claudine Chamoreau

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262301 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262301 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262301 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203434 Pages: 257 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203434 Pages: 257 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027203434 Pages: 257 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of
languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include
clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial
clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference
systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the
influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as
well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the
grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies
illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to
understand how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world’s
languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language
contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for
readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about
syntactic complexity in a variety of languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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