"This volume surveys the phenomenon of syntactic complexity in a diversity of languages and from a diversity of theoretical perspectives. The topics include clause combining strategies such as relative, complement, and adverbial clauses, serialization, clausal nominalizations, but also the switch reference systems involved in clause chains, the role of insubordination and the influence of language contact in the development of syntactic complexity as well as the acquisition of complex clauses in child language and the grammaticalization processes leading to syntactic complexity. These studies illustrate the varied aspects involved in clause combining and help to understanding how syntactic complexity works and evolves in the world's languages, how it varies across languages, how it is influenced by language contact, how it is acquired. As such, this book gives the opportunity for readers to expand both their typological and their theoretical knowledge about syntactic complexity in a variety of languages" --.

• Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • The notion of syntactic complexity
  • Presentation of the book
  • Overview of the papers
  • References
• Part I. Syntactic complexity and language contact
• Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Areal influences within Highland New Guinea
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: The basics
    • 2.1 Switch-reference morphology in Kobon and Haruai
  • 3. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: What is tracked?
  • 4. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Overlapping reference
    • 4.1 Overlapping reference in Kobon
    • 4.2 Overlapping reference in Haruai
  • 5. Conclusion and prospects
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Models of grammar and the outcomes of long-term language contact: Language mixing in Dakkhini
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theories of language mixing outcomes: The MLFM
  • 3. Dakkhini
    • 3.1 Dakkhini: Basic facts
    • 3.2 Dakkhini: Some examples
    • 3.3 Dakkhini and the MLFM
  • 4. An exoskeletal frame model: EFM
    • 4.1 The EFM is a generative competence model
    • 4.2 The structure and properties of the EFM
    • 4.3 How the EFM deals with CS type mixing data
  • 5. An exoskeletal EFM analysis of Dakkhini
    • 5.1 Dakkhini and the EFM
    • 5.2 Dakkhini and the complementizer ki
    • 5.3 Dakkhini and Bol ke
    • 5.4 Wider implications of our analysis
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Part II. Syntactic complexity and language acquisition
• Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Constructional grounding in emerging complexity: Early comp-que constructions in Spanish acquisition
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Antecedents
    • 2.1 Constructional grounding in acquisition
    • 2.2 Spanish antecedents
  • 3. Method
    • 3.1 Data selection
    • 3.2 Data presentation
  • 4. Analysis
    • 4.1 Overview of early complex sentences: ctv + comp-que constructions
    • 4.2 On verbs that will take comp-que constructions: Developing a construction inventory
    • 4.2 On verbs that will take comp-que constructions: Developing a construction inventory
    • 4.3 Looking at Free comp-que constructions
    • 4.4 Development of ctv frames and comp-que constructions
    • 4.5 Bridging the gap. Dialogical support and on-line integration
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgement
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Part III. The syntactic complexity of adverbial clauses
• The predicates of Luiseño clausal adjuncts
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Temporal properties and a word’s informational structure
  • 3. Properties of form
    • 3.1 Values for PER and N
    • 3.2 Temporality and form
    • 3.3 Implications
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Adverbial subordinators in Yaqui
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Yaqui sentences
    • 2.1 Simple clauses
    • 2.2 Relative clauses
    • 2.3 Complement clauses
  • 3. Adverbial subordinators, some generalities
  • 4. Yaqui adverbial subordinators
    • 4.1 The sample
    • 4.2 Specific subordinators
    • 4.3 General subordinators
    • 4.4 General subordinators serving as switch-reference marking?
  • 5. Adverbial subordinators in Cahita languages: Initial or final subordinators?
  • 6. Final comments
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Narrative corpus
  • References
• Part IV. The diachrony of syntactic complexity
• Grammaticalization of the linking devices with ka in Purepecha
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic typological characteristics of Purepecha
  • 3. Coordinator ka
    • 3.1 General properties and interphrastic uses
    • 3.2 Interclausal uses
  • 4. ka used in subordinate finite clauses
    • 4.1 -ka at the beginning of the subordinate clause: Different kinds of subordinator
    • 4.1 -ka at the beginning of the subordinate clause: Different kinds of subordinator
    • 4.2 -ka at the end of the subordinate clause: A compulsory suffix on the verb
    • 4.2 -ka at the end of the subordinate clause: A compulsory suffix on the verb
  • 5. Conclusion: Two hypotheses about the source and grammaticalization of ka
  • 5. Conclusion: Two hypotheses about the source and grammaticalization of ka
    • The specific route of the subjunctive mood
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo: Diachronic diversity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sociolinguistic information and grammatical properties of Pima Bajo
  • 3. Clausal nominalization
  • 4. Syntactic nominalizations in Pima Bajo
    • 4.1 The suffix -dam
    • 4.2 The nominalizing suffix -kig
    • 4.3 The nominalizing suffix -ka
  • 5. Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Syntactic complexity and grammaticalization in Toba language (Guaycuruan)
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. An overview of Toba language
  • 3. Syntactic complexity in Toba
    • 3.1 Complement clauses with phasal and modal verbs
    • 3.2 Grammaticalization of phasal and modal verbs
      • 3.2.1 Phasal verbs
      • 3.2.2 Modal verbs
  • 5. Serial verb constructions (SVCs) with motion verbs in Toba
    • 5.1 Grammaticalization of motion verbs
  • 6. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• From discourse to syntax: The use of the discourse marker bwe in the creation of interclausal connectives in Yaqui
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Yaqui language
  • 3. Two bwe-formed syntactic connectives in Modern Yaqui
    • 3.1 Bwe’ituk as a cause/reason adverbial connective
    • 3.2 Bweta as an adversative connective
  • 4. The evolution of cause/reason and adversative connectives in Yaqui
    • 4.1 Cause/reason adverbial clauses and adversative clause in Colonial Cahita
    • 4.1 Cause/reason adverbial clauses and adversative clause in Colonial Cahita
      • 4.1.1 Cause/reason adverbial clauses in Colonial Cahita
      • 4.1.2 The multifunctionality of teca in Colonial Cahita
      • 4.1.3 Adversative clauses in Colonial Cahita
    • 4.2 The bwe’ituk and bweta formations
  • 5. The discourse marker bwe
    • 5.1 The discursive functions of the particle bwe
    • 5.2 The functional motivations of the bwe recruitment
  • 6. Discursive uses of bwe’ituk and bweta in Yaqui
    • 6.1 Discursive uses of bwe’ituk
    • 6.2 Discursive uses of bweta
  • 7. Final remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Authors index
• Language index
• Subject index