Adverbial clause combining in Latgalian

Clause combining in Chechen

Chechen exhibits three major strategies for the combination of clauses: coordination, chaining, and subordination. The major formal characteristics of these three traditional categories of clause linking are discussed with reference to their basic syntax and semantics as well as to more particular syntactic characteristics, including constituent order and behaviour with respect to negation and ...

Clausal Complement or Adverbial Clause?: Toward an Integral Account of the Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clause

This paper proposes a constraint-based, comprehensive analysis of the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (henceforth, IHRC) in Japanese which is able to accommodate the synchronic properties as well as the diachronic change that IHRC went through. Various types of syntactic analyses have been proposed to date to explain the peculiar traits of IHRC as it is today. Philological studies in Japanese...

Two types of coordination in clause combining

This paper argues for a constructional approach to the analysis of coordination in English, with comparative evidence from a number of other Germanic languages. The analysis of coordination proposed here is functionally based on the notion of illocutionary force and formally reflected in the behavior of the basic clause types (declarative–imperative–interrogative) in the clauses that make up th...

Clause Combining in Otomi before and after contact with Spanish

In this contribution, we explore two hypotheses with respect to clause combining. The first one is the assumption that languages with a mainly spoken tradition explicitly code clause relations, both coordination and subordination, to a lesser extent than languages with a long written tradition. And secondly, in case of contact between two such languages, with the latter one in a dominant positi...

Adverbial Verbs and Adverbial Compounds in Tsou: A Syntactic Analysis