Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor's introduction: Subordination and coordination from different perspectives 1
4. Part I. General and theoretical issues
5. RST revisited: Disentangling nuclearity 33
6. Subordination and coordination in syntax, semantics, and discourse: Evidence from the study of connectives 59
7. Part II. Cross-linguistic approaches
8. A corpus-based perspective on clause linking patterns in English, French and Dutch 89
9. Sentence splitting – and strategies to preserve discourse structure in German-Norwegian translations 115
10. Upgrading of non-restrictive relative clauses in translation: A change in discourse structure? 135
11. Subordination in narratives and macro-structural planning: A comparative point of view 161
12. Part III. Monolingual studies
13. German dependent clauses from a constraint-based perspective 187
14. To the right of the clause: Right dislocation vs. afterthought 217
15. Exploring the role of clause subordination in discourse structure: The case of French avant que 241
16. Pseudo-imperatives and other cases of conditional conjunction and conjunctive disjunction 255
17. From discourse to "odd coordinations": On asymmetric coordination and subject gaps in German 281
18. Part IV. Diachronic perspectives
19. Old Indic clauses between subordination and coordination 307
20. Rhetorical relations and verb placement in the early Germanic languages: A cross-linguistic study 329
21. Index of subjects 353
22. Index of names 357