Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia

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Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia

Name: Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia
ISBN: 9789027206978

Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie, Peter Sells

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This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia. Contrary to a common premise that, in any language, adnominal clauses that share some features of relative clauses constitute a structurally distinct construction, some languages of Eurasia exhibit a General Noun-Modifying Clause Construction (GNMCC) -- a single construction covering a wide range of semantic relations between the head noun and the clause. Through in-depth examination of naturally-occurring and elicited data from Ainu, languages of the Caucasus (e.g. Ingush, Georgian, Bezhta, Hinuq), Japanese, Korean, Marathi, Nenets, Sino-Tibetan languages (e.g. Cantonese, Mandarin, Rawang), and Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish, Sakha), the chapters discuss whether or not the language in question exhibits a GNMCC and the range of noun modification covered by such a construction. The findings afford us new facts, new theoretical perspectives and the first step toward a more global assessment of the possibilities for GNMCCs.

Категории:

Linguistics - Historical & Comparative Linguistics

Година:

2017

Издателство:

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Език:

english

Страници:

387

ISBN 10:

902720697X