Subordinate Clauses with William!

About this episode

William Annis discusses subordinate clauses in a broad overview.

William Annis has come back to the show to talk to us about subordinate clauses! This will be a broad overview of the topic, which we may dive deeper on in future episodes. Links and resources: Lingweenie: https://lingweenie.org/conlang/ Wikipedia on balancing and deranking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balancing_and_deranking Dixon, Robert M. W., and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Cristofaro, Sonia. “Is There Really a Syntactic Category of Subordination?” In Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski, and Helena Sorva, 249:73–91. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.249.03cri . Wälchli, Bernhard. “Selectives (‘Topic Markers’) on Subordinate Clauses.” Linguistics 60, no. 5 (September 27, 2022): 1539–1617. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0242 . Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. “4 A Medial Clause Does It All: Coherence, Continuity, and Addressee Involvement in Manambu.” In Celebrating Indigenous Voice, edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Robert L. Bradshaw, Luca Ciucci, and Pema Wangdi, 73–94. De Gruyter, 2023…

People in this episode

Guest: William Annis

Topics covered

• subordinate clauses
• linguistics
• syntax
• clause linking
• language structure

Keywords

• subordinate clauses
• syntax
• linguistics
• clause linking
• language

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lingweenie, Wikipedia

Books & works: Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, Is There Really a Syntactic Category of Subordination?, Selectives (‘Topic Markers’) on Subordinate Clauses, 4 A Medial Clause Does It All: Coherence, Continuity, and Addressee Involvement in Manambu, 15 Clause Combining: Syntax of Subordination and Complementation

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