Levels in Clause Linkage: A Crosslinguistic Survey

ISBN-13: 9783110516777 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 906 str.

Tasaku Tsunoda

Opis

Five levels can be set up in clause linkage on semantico-pragmatic grounds. This book examines the use of clause linkage markers ("CLMs") for causals, conditionals and concessives in terms of these five levels, employing a framework that was proposed by Mie Tsunoda on the basis of Japanese data. It provides rich data on seventeen languages (including one dialect of Japanese) from North America, Central America, Oceania, Asia, Africa and Europe, and it shows that different CLMs -- even CLMs of the same semantic area, e.g. causals -- exhibit different distributions in terms of the five levels. It also shows that regarding these distributions there are commonalities and differences among languages. The chapters on individual languages generally employ the same template, and this facilitates a crosslinguistic comparison. More than half of the languages examined in this book are endangered languages and/or so-called minority languages, and this book supplies the kind of data from these languages that will be difficult to obtain elsewhere. This book will be indispensible for linguists interested in issues such as clause linkage, causals, conditionals, concessives, modality, epistemology and speech acts.

O autorze

Tasaku Tsunoda, Prof. Em. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.