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Title: Subordination and Coordination Strategies in North Asian Languages
Edited By: Edward J. Vajda
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20300
Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 300
Description:

Across North Asia, complex sentence formation patterns display an unusually high prevalence of suffixed relational morphemes used to convey subordination. Suffixal subordinators occur in a variety of genetic groupings, most notably Samoyedic, Turkic, and Tungusic, but also in some of the region's language isolates, such as Ket and Ainu. No general study has surveyed complex sentences across Northern Eurasia and the Pacific Rim, an area noted both for its complicated web of language contact phenomena and its long-established genetic divisions. The 14 chapters in this volume survey synthetic and analytic methods of subordination and coordination. Much of the data reflect original fieldwork, and several chapters focus on critically endangered languages. Nearly every family or isolate in North Asia is taken into consideration, as are all major formal and functional types of complex sentence formation.

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027248169
Prices: U.S. $ 158.00
 
Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027290946
Prices: U.S. $ 158.00
 
LL Issue: 19.3727
 
 
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