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Subordination in Conversation

2011
1. List of contributors 2. Introduction (by Laury, Ritva) 3. N be that-constructions in everyday German conversation: A reanalysis of 'die Sache ist/das Ding ist' ('the thing is')-clauses as projector phrases (by Gunthner, Susanne) 4. Interrogative "complements" and question design in Estonian (by Keevallik, Leelo) 5.
Ryoko Suzuki, Ritva Laury
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The structure of discourse and ‘subordination’

, 1987
: The use and nature of clause combining in natural discourse are explored in this paper. First, a theory of text structure, Rhetorical Structure Theory, is introduced and illustrated for a number of short texts.
C. Matthiessen, S. Thompson
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Acquisition of subordinate categories by 3-year-olds: The roles of attribute salience, linguistic input, and child characteristics

Cognitive Development, 1994
Abstract This study was concerned with factors that may affect young 3-year-olds' acquisition of subordinate categories. Three factors were considered: (a) salience of the attribute or attributes which differentiate a subordinate category from other subordinates subsumed under the same basic level category, (b) presence or absence of linguistic input
Carolyn B. Mervis   +2 more
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The Surgical Treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum: Statistical Linguistics and Authorship

, 2014
This chapter clarifies some of the ambiguity and contradiction in the surgical treatises of the Corpus Hippocraticum ( CH ). It proposes a statistical study applied to linguistics, that is, statistical linguistics, as a useful method and a starting point
Mikel Labiano
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'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text

2008
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.
Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Wiebke Ramm
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The Typology of Subordination in Georgian and Abkhaz

, 1987
The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples.
B. Hewitt
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On the use of data in historical linguistics: word order in early English subordinate clauses

English Language and Linguistics, 2014
This article critically assesses Lightfoot's (1991, 2006) ‘degree-0 theory’ of language change, specifically the use that Lightfoot makes of empirical data from Old English (OE) and Middle English (ME). This is followed by the presentation of a recent analysis of word order in a variety of OE and ME sources. It is argued that data from these periods do
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Transaction of cognitive‐linguistic abilities and adult input: A case study of the acquisition of colour terms and colour‐based subordinate object categories

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1995
Data from a comprehensive diary study of early lexical development were analysed to document the acquisition of colour terms and the acquisition of colour‐based subordinate object categories by one child who learned all 11 basic colour terms prior to age 2:0 years. The pattern of child colour‐term production and adult feedback for colour‐term usage was
Jacquelyn Bertrand   +2 more
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Language and power: an empirical analysis of linguistic strategies used in superior-subordinate communication

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2000
Importing the anthropological, sociolinguistic theory of ‘politeness’ into the domain of organizational studies, this article presents results of a laboratory study that illustrates how power is communicated through specific linguistic gestures differentially used by superiors and subordinates throughout daily interchange.
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The use of translations in linguistic argumentation

Languages in Contrast, 2010
Despite obvious interference risks, it has been argued in former studies that translations constitute a useful tool for investigating lexical phenomena. By means of a corpus study on prepositional clauses introduced by para in Spanish and Portuguese, the present paper shows that translations can also be a valuable methodological tool for the study of ...
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