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The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch,

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Subordinate constructions. --- Coordinate constructions. --- Clauses. --- Sentences.

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This book addresses the role complementizers (eg that in She said that she would) and their phrases play in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language. Leading linguists and promising young scholars draw on analyses of a wide range of languages to consider how complementizers behave in subject extraction phenomena.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Subordinate constructions. --- Komplementierer. --- Ergänzungssatz --- Complement. --- Complement --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subordinate constructions.

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This book connects two linguistic phenomena, modality and subordinators, so that both are seen in a new light, each adding to the understanding of the other. It argues that general subordinators (or complementizers) denote propositional modality (otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers). The book explores the hypothesis both on a cross-linguistic and on a language-branch specific level (the Germanic languages). One obvious connection between the indicative-subjunctive distinction and subordinators is that the former is typically manifested in subordinate clauses. Furthermore, both the indicative-subjunctive and subordinators determine clause types. More importantly, however, it is shown, through data from various languages, that subordinators themselves often denote the indicative-subjunctive distinction. In the Germanic languages, there is variation in many clause types between both the indicative and the subjunctive and that and if depending on the speaker's and/or the subject's certainty of the truth of the proposition.

Grammar --- Modality (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Subordinate constructions --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- General --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Subordinate constructions. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Modality (Linguistics). --- Subordination (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Syntax --- Philology

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The English I mean and the Japanese teyuuka differ syntactically and semantically, but they have similar pragmatized uses. Both verbs, mean and yuu, function as regular verbs in main clauses and also as part of formulaic expressions which indicate a modal meaning with respect to an utterance, or project back to an earlier utterance and index it as inadequate or in need of modification. Both constructions can also frame another expression as a modification of the earlier utterance. They also function metacommunicatively to manage the interaction on a strategic level. The article compares the structure and functions of these two constructions in conversation and shows how structurally different expressions used in certain kinds of discourse and interactional contexts have come to serve similar but not identical pragmatic needs.

Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Conversation analysis. --- Subordinate constructions. --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Conversation analysis --- Subordination (Linguistics) --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Oral communication --- Subordinate constructions --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Subordinate constructions

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This study is concerned with the categorial status of subordinating conjunctions and the internal and external structure of subordinate clauses. Starting out from the categorizations of subordinating conjunctions that prevail in recent generative linguistic theory, namely complementizers and prepositions, and from the division of syntactic categories into lexical and functional ones, the author investigates the lexical and grammatical properties of subordinating conjunctions which are held to account for both the distribution and the architecture of subordinate clauses. Central to this study is the relation between the category subordinating conjunction, the licensing of its projection and the licensing of its complement and specifier position. Part I is concerned with subordination in early Generative Grammar, the rise of the category C and the categorization of subordinating conjunctions. Part II focuses on recent conceptions of phrase structure, the inventory of syntactic categories, the lexical-functional dichotomy and syntactic movement. Part III is concerned with the lexical properties of complementizers (C), prepositions (P), and a third category of subordinating conjunctions (Subcon) which conflates properties of Cs and Ps. This categorization of subordinating conjunctions is arrived at on the basis of the distribution of the phrases they head and the mechanisms by which these elements license their complement and specifier. Cs, as typical functional heads, license both theirs complement and their specifier on the basis of feature checking mechanisms; Ps, as typical lexical heads, license these positions by theta-marking them. Within SubconP the complement is licensed by feature checking as within CP, and the specifier is licensed by theta-marking as within PP.

Generatieve spraakkunst --- Grammaire générative --- Grammaire transformationnelle --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] -- Derivation --- Grammar [Generative ] --- Grammar [Transformational ] --- Grammar [Transformational generative ] --- Grammatica [Generatieve ] --- Grammatica [Transformationele ] --- Spraakkunst [Generatieve ] --- Spraakkunst [Transformationele ] --- Transformationele grammatica --- Transformationele spraakkunst --- Transformationele taaltheorie --- Grammar --- English language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Subordination (Linguistics) --- Subordinate constructions --- Syntax --- Subordination --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Generative grammar --- Subordinate constructions. --- Germanic languages --- Linguistics --- Philology