Testing the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy: Modal and Aspectual Constructions in Sardinian
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Testing the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy: Modal and Aspectual Constructions in Sardinian

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Testing the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy: Modal and Aspectual Constructions in Sardinian

About this book

This book examines the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy within the Role and Reference Grammar theory, with primary data on eight complex verbal Sardinian constructions. The hierarchy ranks them from the most cohesive to the least cohesive, both syntactically and semantically. There is a meaningful prediction of the hierarchy, that is, the tightest syntactic linkage realising a particular semantic relation should be tighter than the tightest syntactic linkage realising looser semantic relations. Almost all the constructions respect this prediction, but two of them. The data also manifest diatopic variation. The author is using a phonetic map to analyse the morphosyntactic data. He presents a number of maps that show that morphosyntactic phenomena are, in general, more widespread than phonetic isoglosses. They are common to the three main varieties of Sardinian: Campidanese, Logudorese and Nuorese.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright Information
  3. Dedication
  4. Acknowledgement
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Conventional Notations
  8. Abstract
  9. ChapterĀ 1 Introduction
  10. ChapterĀ 2 Methodological notes
  11. ChapterĀ 3 Brief introduction to rrg
  12. ChapterĀ 4 Analysis of the constructions
  13. ChapterĀ 5 The Interclausal Relations Hierarchy vis-ļ»æĆ ļ»æ-vis the Sardinian data
  14. ChapterĀ 6 Diatopic variation in the structure and distribution of complex predicates
  15. ChapterĀ 7 Conclusions
  16. List of Illustrations
  17. Bibliography