Hypotaxis as Building-site: The Emergence and Grammaticalization of Concessive Conditionals in English, German and DutchLincom Europa, 2006 - 187 pages |
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ACCs adverb analysed anaphor antecedent values antigrammaticalization apodosis asyndetic conditionals Auwera CC protases Chapter clause-integration Concessive Conditionals content-domain desententialization diachronic directionality discussion disintegration domain egal embedded interrogatives emergence of CCs fact focus particle following example function German and Dutch gleichgültig grammar grammaticalization Haspelmath heeft historical hypotactic hypotaxis instantiations integration König languages in question left-dislocation Leuschner maar main clause matrix clause Middle Dutch Middle High German motivated niet non-initial nonspecific free relatives occur Old High German paratactic parataxis particled UCCs partitioning patterns Plautdietsch predicate-complement predicates of indifference prefixed UCCs present-day presupposition pronoun proposition protasis prototypical quantificational reanalysis relevant resumption Rhetorical Dialogues SCCs schema semantic sentence source constructions speaker structure subordinate clause subordinating conjunction synchronic syntactic topic Traugott typical typological univerbation universal quantification variable verb West Germanic West Germanic languages WH word Whoever Zaefferer 1987 zijn