Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia (eBook)

Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries

Comrie Bernard Comrie, Sells Peter Sells, Matsumoto Yoshiko Matsumoto (Herausgeber)

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2017
387 Seiten
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-90-272-6613-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 90-272-6613-1 / 9027266131
• ISBN-13: 978-90-272-6613-2 / 9789027266132