'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective (Studies in Language Companion Series)

The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular, the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level.The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific - predominantly semantic - topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of how information packaging on the sentence and text level are related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically. Editor's Introduction: Subordination And Coordination From Different Perspectives / Cathrine Fabricius-hansen & Wiebke Ramm -- Rst Revisited: Disentangling Nuclearity / Manfred Stede -- Subordination And Coordination In Syntax, Semantics, And Discourse: Evidence From The Study Of Connectives / Hardarik Blühdorn -- A Corpus-based Perspective On Clause Linking Patterns In English, French And Dutch / Christelle Cosme -- Sentence Splitting -- And Strategies To Preserve Discourse Structure In German-norwegian Translations / Kåre Solfield -- Upgrading Of Non-restrictive Relative Clauses In Translation: A Change In Discourse Structure? / Wiebke Ramm -- Subordination In Narratives And Macro-structural Planning: A Comparative Point Of View / Mary Carroll [and Others]. German Dependent Clauses From A Constraint-based Perspective / Anke Holler -- To The Right Of The Clause: Right Dislocation Vs. Afterthought / Maria Averintseva-klisch -- Exploring The Role Of Clause Subordination In Discourse Structure: The Case Of French Avant Que / Laurence Delort -- Pseudo-imperatives And Other Cases Of Conditional Conjunction And Conjunctive Disjunction / Michael Franke -- From Discourse To Odd Coordinations: On Asymmetric Coordination And Subject Gaps In German / Ingo Reich -- Old Indic Clauses Between Subordination And Coordination / Rosemarie Lühr -- Rhetorical Relations And Verb Placement In The Early Germanic Languages: A Cross-linguistic Study / Svetlana Petrova & Michael Solf. Edited By Cathrine Fabricius-hansen, Wiebke Ramm. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization – at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific – predominantly semantic – topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically. "The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically."--BOOK JACKET Contains papers, which investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular, the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination - or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization - at the discourse level.