Subordination in native South-American languages / edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Subordination in Native South American Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of contributors; Subordination in South America; Subordinate adverbial constructions in Mekens; Relative clauses in Meb?ngokre; Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan); Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavineña narratives; Referring to states and events; Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordination; Subordination in Cholón; Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination; Relative clauses in Ecuadorian Quechua.

Participial clauses in Tarma QuechuaComplex sentences in Uchumataqu in a comparative perspective with Chipaya; Author index; Language index; Subject index; The series Typological Studies in Language.

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant pattern.

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