30.3378, Books: Nominalization in Languages of the Americas: Zariquiey, Shibatani, Fleck (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 09:56:13
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Nominalization in Languages of the Americas: Zariquiey, Shibatani, Fleck (eds.)

 


Title: Nominalization in Languages of the Americas 
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 124  

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

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.124 


Editor: Roberto Zariquiey
Editor: Masayoshi Shibatani
Editor: David W. Fleck

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027262738 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 158.00
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Abstract:

Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization
plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s
languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and
widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been
approached as foundational grammatical structures for constructions such as
relative clauses and complement clauses. This is due to an imbalance in past
scholarship, which has tended to focus on these constructions at the expense
of the nominalization structures underlying them. The papers in this
collection treat grammatical nominalizations in their own right, and as a
starting point for the investigation of their uses in complex grammatical
structures. A representative sample of Amerindian languages, with focus on
South America, examines properties of grammatical nominalizations such as
their multiple functions, their internal and external syntax, and their
diachronic development. Among the far-reaching theoretical conclusions reached
by the studies in this volume is that the various types of relative clauses
recognized in the typological literature are actually no more than
epiphenomena arising from the different uses of grammatical nominalizations.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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