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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©1997
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 18
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Physical Description:1 online resource (425 p.) :; Num.figs and tabs.
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Table of 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