Overview

Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is characterised by extensive use of multi-genre data. The collection aims at a more precise understanding of subordination by emphasizing its pragmatic and contextual nature. Subordination and its linguistic realizations are studied from the perspective of language in its actual contexts of use, as an interactional resource available to language users, in both written and spoken language. In addition, the authors produce typologically relevant information about subordination in the different varieties and genres of the studied languages (English, Estonian, Finnish, and French). These qualities make the book unique in the field of subordination studies.

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Author:   Laura Visapää (University of Helsinki) ,  Jyrki Kalliokoski (University of Helsinki) ,  Helena Sorva (University of Helsinki)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   249
Weight:   0.670kg
ISBN:  

9789027256546

ISBN 10:   9027256543
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   04 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Herlin, Ilona); 2. Subordination in a dynamic account of grammar (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 3. Is there really a syntactic category of subordination? (by Cristofaro, Sonia); 4. Rhetorical use of some Finnish conjunctions in constructions and the scope of subordination (by Jaaskelainen, Anni); 5. Subordination in purpose clauses: Variation of verb moods in Finnish and French (by Peltola, Rea); 6. On the contextual conceptualization of joka relative clauses in Finnish (by Visapaa, Laura); 7. More subordinate?: Verb-final order and subordination in Finnish dialects (by Vilkuna, Maria); 8. Subordination and the prosodic marking of punctuation in L'etranger by Albert Camus (by Wiklund, Mari); 9. Utterances ending in the conjunction etta: Complete or to be continued? (by Koivisto, Aino); 10. French and Finnish converbal constructions and their translation from French into Finnish (by Havu, Eva); 11. Development of the Estonian conjunction kuna 'while; because' during the 20th century (by Plado, Helen); 12. Index

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Contexts of Subordination presents an innovative view of the features of and main approaches to its subject, and sets a good example to the study of subordination in both theory and practice. It will be a worthwhile read not only for students and lecturers who are interested in subordination, but also for functionalists, corpus linguists and typologists. -- Yi'na Wang & Siqi Lyu, Beihang University, in Functions of Language 24:1 (2017)

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