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Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World - Hardcover

 
9780198870319: Clause Chaining in the Languages of the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198870310 ISBN 13: 9780198870319
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants. It examines general issues and offers case studies of clause chaining and related phenomena in a range of languages.

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About the Author

Hannah S. Sarvasy, Senior Researcher, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University,Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Professor, Jawun Centre, Central Queensland University

Hannah S. Sarvasy is Senior Researcher at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University. Her research combines fieldwork on Papuan, Atlantic and other languages, child language acquisition research, and psycholinguistic experimentation. She is the author of A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea (Brill, 2017), among other volumes, and led a Nungon-speaking team to build the Nungon Child Speech Corpus, one of the largest digitized corpora of child-caregiver interactions in a Papuan language. She has published multiple studies on the grammar, history, acquisition, and processing of clause chains and switch-reference marking.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Head of Research Cluster 'Language and well-being' at the Jawun Centre, Central Queensland University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003) and The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (OUP, 2008; paperback 2010), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American and Papuan languages and typological issues including evidentials, classifiers, serial verbs, and language and well-being.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198870310
ISBN 13 
9780198870319
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
872
Editor
Sarvasy Hannah S., Aikhenvald Alexandra Y.