Readership: Typologists, functional and cognitive linguists, as well as any scholars interested in the mapping of language form onto language function. The book will also appeal to scholars interested in the syntactic properties of individual languages, as well as syntacticians in general.
Sonia Cristofaro, University of Pavia
"the first systemic attempt to proivide a comprehensive functional account of the connections among all subordination types in terms of overall implicational hierarchies. To my mind, Cristofaro accomplishes this task with flying colours ... extremely well-written as well as user-friendly" - Francisco Gonzalvez-Garcia, University of Almeria, Folia Linguistica
"... a major cross-linguistic, typological study of subordination ... impressive in its scope ... an important study which is bound to stimulate further research on subordination, whether in individual languages or cross-linguistically." - LINGUIST List
List of tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1: Theoretical premises 2: The notion of subordination 3: The coding of subordination 4: The cross-linguistic coding of subordination 5: Complement relations 6: Adverbial relations 7: Relative relations 8: Comparison of complement, adverbial, and relative relations 9: The coding of subordination relations 10: Correlations between individual morphosyntactic phenomena 11: Conclusions and prospects Appendices Bibliography Index
