Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse: Essays in Honor of Sandra A. ThompsonJoan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career. |
Contents
An emergent word class? | 19 |
Denial and the construction of conversational turns | 61 |
Embodied beingintheworld | 79 |
The symmetry of counterfactuals | 101 |
Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations | 125 |
Hendiadys and auxiliation in English | 145 |
Sentence in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse | 175 |
Some issues concerning the origin of language | 203 |
Are subordinate clauses more difficult? | 223 |
A multifaceted view | 235 |
Complex sentences in a different sense | 321 |
Publications by Sandra A Thompson | 337 |
Name index | 351 |
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