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Adverbial Subordination : A Typology and History of Adverbial Subordinators Based on European Languages / Bernd Kortmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] ; 18Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2012]Copyright date: ©1997Edition: Reprint 2012Description: 1 online resource (425 p.) : Num.figs and tabsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110151145
  • 9783110812428
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 22
LOC classification:
  • P294
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Part One. Background: Scope, Aims, Theory, Methodology, Data -- 1. Scope and aims -- 2. Theoretical foundations -- 3. The European perspective -- 4. Data collection and classification -- Part Two. Towards a Typology -- 5. The grammatical category of adverbial subordinators: some initial general tendencies -- 6. The equilibrium of form and meaning -- 7. The semantic space of adverbial relations -- 8. Areal and genetic patterns -- 9. Euroversals -- Part Three. Historical Developments -- 10. From Old English to Present-Day English -- Part Four. Summary and Outlook -- 11. The major results and their implications for future research -- Notes -- Grammars and Dictionaries -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Part One. Background: Scope, Aims, Theory, Methodology, Data -- 1. Scope and aims -- 2. Theoretical foundations -- 3. The European perspective -- 4. Data collection and classification -- Part Two. Towards a Typology -- 5. The grammatical category of adverbial subordinators: some initial general tendencies -- 6. The equilibrium of form and meaning -- 7. The semantic space of adverbial relations -- 8. Areal and genetic patterns -- 9. Euroversals -- Part Three. Historical Developments -- 10. From Old English to Present-Day English -- Part Four. Summary and Outlook -- 11. The major results and their implications for future research -- Notes -- Grammars and Dictionaries -- References -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects

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