{"product_id":"semantics-of-clause-linking-a-cross-linguistic-typology-9780199600700","title":"Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology","description":"This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and complement clause constructions. These span a\u003cbr\u003enumber of types of semantic linking. Three, for example, describe varieties of consequence -- cause, result, and purpose -- which may be illustrated in English by, respectively: \u003cem\u003eBecause John has been studying German for years, he speaks it well; John has been studying German for years, thus he\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003espeaks it well; a\u003c\/em\u003end \u003cem\u003eJohn has been studying German for years, in order that he should speak it well.\u003c\/em\u003e Syntactic descriptions of languages provide a grammatical analysis of clause types. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe chapters in this book add the further dimension of semantics, generally in the form of focal and supporting clauses, the former referring to the central activity or state of the biclausal linking; and the latter to the clause attached to it. The supporting clause may set out the temporal milieu\u003cbr\u003efor the focal clause or specify a condition or presupposition for it or a preliminary statement of it, as in \u003cem\u003eAlthough John has been studying German for years\u003c\/em\u003e (the supporting clause), \u003cem\u003ehe does not speak it well\u003c\/em\u003e (the focal clause). Professor Dixon's extensive opening discussion is followed by fourteen\u003cbr\u003ecase studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. M. W. Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199600700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eR. M. W. Dixon\u003c\/strong\u003e is Adjunct Professor at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University. His pioneering fieldwork on Australian Aboriginal languages began in the 1960s and led, among many other works, to grammars of Dyirbal and Yidin, culminating in \u003cem\u003eAustralian Languages: Their nature and development\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP 2002). His other books include \u003cem\u003eA Grammar of Boumaa Fijian\u003c\/em\u003e (U Chicago Press 1988), \u003cem\u003eErgativity\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP, 1994), \u003cem\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Languages\u003c\/em\u003e (CUP 1997) and \u003cem\u003eA Semantic Approach to English Grammar\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2005). The hardback edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2004) was winner of the 2004-5 Leonard Bloomfield Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus \u003cem\u003eA Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934235803763,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_892f610d-8d6a-4fc5-85d6-b4935bf378e0.jpg?v=1647878389","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/semantics-of-clause-linking-a-cross-linguistic-typology-9780199600700","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}