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"Subordination" versus "Coordination" in Sentence and Text: A Cross-linguistic Perspective

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing
Year
2008
ISBN
9027231095, 9789027231093, 9789027290311
LCC
P294 .S83 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (20271362 bytes)
Series
Studies in Language Companion Series
Pages
359\367
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular, the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level.The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific - predominantly semantic - topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of how information packaging on the sentence and text level are related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.

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