A typology of purpose clauses
By: Karsten Schmidtke-Bode.
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 88
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789027206695
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subordinate constructions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations and notational conventions; title: 1. Aims and scope of the book; title: 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations; title: 3. The grammar of purpose; title: 4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences; title: Summary: the developmental trajectories of purpose clauses; title: Conclusion and outlook; title: References.