In:Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
[Typological Studies in Language 126] 2019
► pp. 87–107
The predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts
Published online: 4 July 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126.04ste
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126.04ste
The predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts are informationally unique among the predicates of its subordinate clause types in ensuring access to their temporal properties; they are morphologically unique in that this characteristic coexists with properties of form otherwise associated with predicates whose temporal properties are not accessible. The character of this uniqueness is consistent with two facts: (1) A clausal adjunct’s temporality must be determined relative to that of the clause to which it is adjoined; and (2) if the subject of a clausal adjunct is not given internal to the clause, it is determined relative to that of the clause to which it is adjoined.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Temporal properties and a word’s informational structure
- 3.Properties of form
- 3.1Values for PER and N
- 3.2Temporality and form
- 3.3Implications
- 4.Conclusion
Notes References
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