4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language?
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Nayoung Kwon
Abstract
Theories of clause linking treat coordination and subordination as mutually exclusive. In this paper, we examine a case where the surface distinction between coordination and subordination is obscured. Concentrating on the-ko construction in Korean, we show that a clause chain can be structurally ambiguous – it can either have all the properties of a coordinate structure or all the properties of a subordinate structure. The choice between the two types is determined by the construal of the events in question as parallel (coordination) vs. causal/sequential (subordination). We present diagnostics for determining subordination vs. coordination and show a correlation between syntactic and semantic properties involved in such structures.
Abstract
Theories of clause linking treat coordination and subordination as mutually exclusive. In this paper, we examine a case where the surface distinction between coordination and subordination is obscured. Concentrating on the-ko construction in Korean, we show that a clause chain can be structurally ambiguous – it can either have all the properties of a coordinate structure or all the properties of a subordinate structure. The choice between the two types is determined by the construal of the events in question as parallel (coordination) vs. causal/sequential (subordination). We present diagnostics for determining subordination vs. coordination and show a correlation between syntactic and semantic properties involved in such structures.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
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Part I: Event chains and complex events
- 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach 3
- 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language 25
- 3. Spanish (de)queisimo: Part/whole alternation and viewing arrangement 53
- 4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language? 87
- 5. Verb serialization as a means to express complex events in Thai 103
- 6. Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry: Connective and accessibility marker interactions 121
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Part II: Subordination, nominalization, modification
- 7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar 137
- 8. Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories 151
- 9. Asymmetry reversal 173
- 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict? 195
- 11. Relating participants across asymmetric events: Conceptual constraints on obligatory control 209
- 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis 227
- 13. The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: Semantic and discourse constraints 245
- 14. Asymmetries in participial modification 261
- Author index 283
- Subject index 285
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction vii
-
Part I: Event chains and complex events
- 1. Asymmetry in English multi-verb sequences: A corpus-based approach 3
- 2. Asymmetries for locating events with Cora spatial language 25
- 3. Spanish (de)queisimo: Part/whole alternation and viewing arrangement 53
- 4. What does coordination look like in a head-final language? 87
- 5. Verb serialization as a means to express complex events in Thai 103
- 6. Notional asymmetry in syntactic symmetry: Connective and accessibility marker interactions 121
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Part II: Subordination, nominalization, modification
- 7. Subordination in Cognitive grammar 137
- 8. Asymmetric events, subordination, and grammatical categories 151
- 9. Asymmetry reversal 173
- 10. Transparency vs. Economy: How does Adioukrou resolve the conflict? 195
- 11. Relating participants across asymmetric events: Conceptual constraints on obligatory control 209
- 12. The Portugese inflected infinitive and its conceptual basis 227
- 13. The periphrastic realization of participants in nominalizations: Semantic and discourse constraints 245
- 14. Asymmetries in participial modification 261
- Author index 283
- Subject index 285
