Subordination

This book represents the broadest study so far conducted on the typology of subordination (clause or sentence dependency). It is based on an 80 language sample, and provides a large amount of data on the coding of several types of complement, adverbial, and relative sentence. This work is the first systematic attempt to establish comprehensive implicational hierarchies describing the coding of complement, adverbial, and relative sentences at a single stroke. Concepts from typological theory and cognitive linguistics are integrated to account for these hierarchies.