36.1254, Books: Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World: Sarvasy and Aikhenvald (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World: Sarvasy and Aikhenvald (ed.) (2025)


Title: Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/clause-chaining-in-the-languages-of-the-world-9780198870319?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): Hannah S. Sarvasy and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Hardcover

Abstract:

The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for
describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a
typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the
grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in the
Asia-Pacific region, East Africa, across Central Asia, and the
Americas. Clause chains consist of several dependent clauses and one
main clause, and are used to organize discourse and to foreground or
background events and participants; they often go together with
switch-reference marking, an indication of whether upcoming subjects
will be co-referential with preceding subjects or not.
The introductory chapter features a discussion of the typological
properties of clause chaining, with a brief overview of previous
approaches to and investigations of clause chains followed by an
overview of their recurrent grammatical features; it ends with an
appendix featuring notes for fieldworkers. The first part of the book
explores general issues in clause chaining, including prosody,
acquisition, and language contact and history; later parts then
examine clause chaining and related phenomena in a wide range of
languages from around the world.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology




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