Coordination Relations in the Languages of Europe and Beyond / / Caterina Mauri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Mauri, Caterina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; List of abbreviations --; Chapter 1. Theoretical foundations: the notion of --; coordination --; Chapter 2. Parameters of analysis --; Chapter 3. Combination relations --; Chapter 4. Contrast relations --; Chapter 5. Alternative relations --; Chapter 6. Combination, contrast and alternative --; relations in comparison --; Chapter 7. A focus on Europe --; Chapter 8. Conclusion and prospects --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110211498; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 0933-761X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110211498
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Caterina Mauri.

This book examines the coding of the three coordination relations of combination, contrast and alternative between states of affairs on the basis of a 74 language sample, with special focus on the languages spoken in Europe. It constitutes the first systematic inquiry so far conducted on the cross-linguistic coding of coordination, as defined in cognitive and pragmatic terms. This research shows that the 'and-but-or' coding system which is typical of Central-Western Europe appears to be extremely rare outside Europe, where a great variation in the coding of coordination is attested. This cross-linguistic variation, however, is not random, but is crucially constrained by the interaction of economic principles with the semantic properties of the individual relations expressed. A fine-grained functional systematization of coordination is proposed and described by means of implicational patterns and semantic maps. This work brings together a broad cross-linguistic perspective and a detailed semantic analysis, largely based on new and comparable data collected by means of questionnaires, all accessible in the appendix of the book. It represents the first systematic attempt towards a unified typology of coordination relations.