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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse
Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson
The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson’s career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.
[Not in series, 110] 2002. viii, 363 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionJoan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan | p. vii
- Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructionsJoan L. Bybee | pp. 1–17
- Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class?Bernard Comrie | pp. 19–30
- Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in EnglishCharles J. Fillmore | pp. 31–59
- Denial and the construction of conversational turnsCecilia E. Ford | pp. 61–78
- On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-worldBarbara A. Fox | pp. 79–99
- The symmetry of counterfactualsJohn Haiman and Tania Kuteva | pp. 101–124
- Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizationsPelin Engin Hennesy and T. Givón | pp. 125–144
- Hendiadys and auxiliation in EnglishPaul J. Hopper | pp. 145–173
- ‘Sentence’ in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourseShoichi Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Ono | pp. 175–202
- Some issues concerning the origin of languageCharles N. Li | pp. 203–221
- Are subordinate clauses more difficult?Carol Lord | pp. 223–233
- Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted viewChristian M.I.M. Matthiessen | pp. 235–319
- Overwrought utterances: ‘Complex sentences’ in a different senseEmanuel A. Schegloff | pp. 321–336
- Publications by Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 337–345
- Language index | pp. 347–349
- Name index | pp. 351–355
- Subject index | pp. 357–363
“This is a useful and thought-provoking collection.”
Edward J. Vajda, Western Washington University, in Language 79(4), 2003
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