Syntax in the making. The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish.

Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa:

ISBN 10: 9027226199 / ISBN 13: 9789027226198

Verlag: Philadelphia, J. Benjamins Pub. Co, 2001

Beschreibung

xiv, 173 S. Gebrauchtes Buch aus ehem. Privatbesitz. GUTER Zustand, wenige Gebrauchsspuren. Used book, few traces of use. C07794 9027226199 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2494110

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Syntax in the making. The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish.
• Verlag: Philadelphia, J. Benjamins Pub. Co
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9027226199
• ISBN-13: 9789027226198
• Einband: Hardcover
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Inhaltsangabe

Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse.
This book focuses on syntactic structuring in Finnish from the viewpoint of language use. The author sets out to study syntactic structures in their local contexts in order to discover the more global patterns and constraints on the use of these structures. The coding strategies point to the clause core as the locus of syntactic structuring: this is where syntactic relations emerge most clearly. It is shown that the key to understanding the coding of the core syntactic relations is the category of person. The clause core also shows strong intonational unity as it is most often presented in one intonation unit. Furthermore, analysis of spoken discourse shows the robustness of the category of noun phrase, both as a clausal constituent and as a free syntactic unit, the free NP.