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Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

  • Edited by: Kasper Boye and Petar Kehayov
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016
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Complementizers may be defined as conjunctions that have the function of identifying clauses as complements. In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that they have additional functions. Some of these functions are semantic in the sense that they represent conventional contributions to the meanings of the complements. The present book puts a focus to these semantic complementizer functions.

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Kasper Boye, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Petar Kehayov, University of Tartu, Estland & University of Regensburg, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    Foreword

    v
    Kasper Boye and Petar Kehayov
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    Table of contents

    vii
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    List of contributors

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    List of gloss abbreviations

    xii
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    Complementizer semantics – an introduction

    1
    Petar Kehayov and Kasper Boye
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  • Part I: Indo-European languages
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    Finite clause complementizers in Celtic

    15
    Peter McQuillan
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    Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers

    75
    Benjamin Fagard, Paola Pietrandrea and Julie Glikman
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    Complementizer semantics in the Germanic languages

    131
    Jackie Nordström and Kasper Boye
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    Complementizers in Slavonic (Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian)

    175
    Björn Hansen, Alexander Letuchiy and Izabela Błaszczyk
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    Semantic functions of complementizers in Baltic

    225
    Axel Holvoet
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    The semantics and syntax of complementation markers as an areal phenomenon in the Balkans, with special attention to Albanian

    265
    Brian D. Joseph
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    Semantics of complementation in Ossetic

    293
    Natalia Serdobolskaya
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    Complementizers in Romani

    341
    Yaron Matras and Anton Tenser
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  • Part II: Non-Indo-European languages
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    On the semantic function and selection of Basque finite complementizers

    379
    Xabier Artiagoitia and Arantzazu Elordieta
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    Semantic functions of complementizers in Maltese

    413
    Albert Borg and Ray Fabri
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    Complementation marker semantics in Finnic (Estonian, Finnish, Karelian)

    449
    Petar Kehayov
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    Clausal complementation in Kildin, Skolt and North Saami

    499
    Kristina Kotcheva and Michael Rießler
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    Semantic functions of complementizers in Permic languages

    529
    Gerson Klumpp
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    Modal functions of the complementizer hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian

    587
    Erika Körtvély
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    Clausal complementation in Turkish and Noghay in a semantic perspective

    619
    Birsel Karakoç and Annette Herkenrath
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    Complementizers in Kalmyk

    665
    Mikhail Knyazev
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    Semantics of complementation in Adyghe

    691
    Natalia Serdobolskaya
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    Complementizers in Hinuq

    745
    Diana Forker
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    Complementizers and the complementizing function – structure and pragmatics in a panchronic perspective

    793
    Peter Harder
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    Complementizer semantics in European languages: Overview and generalizations

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    Petar Kehayov and Kasper Boye
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    Language index

    879
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    Subject index

    885
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eBook published on:
July 11, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9783110416619
Hardcover published on:
July 11, 2016
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110416510
Paperback published on:
June 11, 2018
Paperback ISBN:
9783110610680
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894
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110416619
eBook ISBN: 9783110416619
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110416510
Paperback ISBN: 9783110610680
Keywords for this book
Complementizer Semantics; Syntax; Morphology; Diachrony
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Academic Specialists, Advanced and Graduate Students
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