Research Catalog

Title

Big events, small clauses : the grammar of elaboration / edited by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Dag Haug.

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine.
• Haug, Dag.

Description

vi, 455 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Language, Context, and Cognition ; 12

Uniform Title

Language, context, and cognition ; 12.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Adjuncts
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Grammar, Comparative and general > Voice
• Semantics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Theoretical issues -- ch. 1 Co-eventive adjuncts: main issues and clarifications / Dag T. T. Haug -- ch. 2 Closed adjuncts: degrees of pertinence / Kjell-Johan Saeb� -- ch. 3 Open adjuncts: participial syntax / Anneliese Pitz -- ch. 4 Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration / Hans Petter Helland -- ch. 5 Competing structures: the discourse perspective / Kre Solfjeld -- pt. II Language-specific case studies -- ch. 6.1 Possessive absolutes in English and their Norwegian correspondences / Hilde Hasselgrd -- ch. 6.2 On absolutes in French, German, and Norwegian / Marianne Hobaek Haff -- ch. 7 Open verb-headed adjuncts in New Testament Greek and the Latin of the Vulgate / Dag T. T. Haug -- ch. 8 The meaning of Russian converbs / Maria Filiouchkina Krave -- ch. 9 Participant- and event-oriented adjectival adjuncts in translation German-Nonvegian / Kre Solfjeld -- ch. 10 German wobei-clauses in translation / Wiebke Ramm.

ISBN

• 3110285800 (alk. paper)
• 9783110285802 (alk. paper)

OCLC

• 798612804
• SCSB-12490209

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library