Karsten Schmidtke-Bode

List of John Benjamins publications in which Karsten Schmidtke-Bode is involved.

Title

A Typology of Purpose Clauses

Karsten Schmidtke-Bode

This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world’s languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 88] 2009. xii, 229 pp.

Article

Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten 2010 The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological perspectives and case studies, Zúñiga, Fernando and Seppo Kittilä (eds.), pp. 121–146 | Article

Across the world’s languages, adverbial clauses of purpose provide an important constructional environment for the occurrence of benefactive and semantically related markers. Based on a recent cross-linguistic study of purpose clauses (Schmidtke-Bode 2009), the present paper provides a systematic… read more