The complex clause
The complex clause
The chapter addresses some aspects of the structure of complex clauses in OR, with special attention to subordination. This description focuses on the inventory of clausal connectors in OR (complementizers, wh-words and conjunctions), on their conditions of selection and distribution, on clitic reduplication phenomena, correlatives, and word order. Besides the prototypical complementizers, OR employed complementizers which have either lost their values in MR, or have grammaticalized and are now specialized as supplementary modal markers. Special attention is paid to the strategy of relativization in OR (linkage mechanism and the selection of the wh-words). Several subsections are devoted to the presentation of clausal adjuncts (temporal, local, manner, causal, purpose, result, conditional, and concessive) and comparative clauses and constructions.
Keywords: complex clause, subordination, complementizer, complement clause, wh-word, relativization, conjunction, clausal adjunct
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