Adverbial Subordination
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Adverbial Subordination

A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages

  1. 448 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Adverbial Subordination

A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. List of Figures
  3. List of Maps
  4. List of Tables
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. PART I. BACKGROUND: SCOPE, AIMS, THEORY, METHODOLOGY, DATA
  7. 1. Scope and aims
  8. 1.1. Guiding questions
  9. 1.2. Scope
  10. 1.3. Major claims and limitations
  11. 2. Theoretical foundations
  12. 2.1. Functional typology
  13. 2.2. Iconicity, markedness and related semiotic principles
  14. 2.3. Cognitive semantics
  15. 2.4. Grammaticalization
  16. 2.5. A look across the fence: Adverbial subordinators from the generative perspective
  17. 3. The European perspective
  18. 3.1. Why the focus on Europe?
  19. 3.2. Defining the languages of Europe
  20. 3.3. The project languages
  21. 3.4. Europe as a cultural unit
  22. 4. Data collection and classification
  23. 4.1. Data collection
  24. 4.2. Definitions and classifications
  25. 4.3. Form-related classifications
  26. 4.4. Meaning-related classifications
  27. 4.5. Some examples from the database
  28. PART II. TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY
  29. 5. The grammatical category of adverbial subordinators: some initial general tendencies
  30. 5.1. Morphological complexity and polyfunctionality
  31. 5.2. Incorporated material, syntactic polyfunctionality and grammaticalization
  32. 6. The equilibrium of form and meaning
  33. 6.1. The Inverse Relation Hypothesis
  34. 6.2. Zipf’s principles of formal semantic balance: evidence from adverbial subordinators in four major European languages
  35. 7. The semantic space of adverbial relations
  36. 7.1. A layered account
  37. 7.2. Semantic relatedness within and between networks of interclausal relations
  38. 8. Areal and genetic patterns
  39. 8.1. Relevant phenomena
  40. 8.2. The Balkan Sprachbund
  41. 8.3. The languages of Europe: core and periphery
  42. 8.4. The impact of Latin and Classical Greek: Two spheres of influence in the linguistic core?
  43. 9. Euroversals
  44. 9.1. Inventories and dominant types of adverbial subordinators
  45. 9.2. Adverbial subordinators for individual interclausal relations
  46. 9.3. Correlations with the language type
  47. PART III. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
  48. 10. From Old English to Present-Day English
  49. 10.1. The inventories of adverbial subordinators
  50. 10.2. Major morphological changes
  51. 10.3. Major semantic changes
  52. 10.4. Changes in the semantic composition of the inventories of adverbial subordinators
  53. PART IV. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK
  54. 11. The major results and their implications for future research
  55. 11.1. Form, meaning and categorial status of adverbial subordinators
  56. 11.2. The validity of semiotic principles
  57. 11.3. Language and cognition: modelling the semantic space of interclausal relations
  58. 11.4. Linguistic areas in Europe and Europe as a linguistic area
  59. 11.5. The history of adverbial subordinators
  60. 11.6. Implications for future research
  61. Notes
  62. Grammars and Dictionaries
  63. References
  64. Index of Authors
  65. Index of Languages
  66. Index of Subjects