Bridging constructions

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Bridging constructions in typological perspective Valérie Guérin & Grant Aiton
1 Preliminaries
1.1 The constructions
1.2 The clause
1.3 Bridging constructions in discourse
2 Bridging constructions: formal characteristics
2.1 Layout
2.2 Morphosyntactic properties of reference clauses
2.3 Morphosyntactic properties of bridging clauses
3 Types of bridging constructions
3.1 Recapitulative linkage
3.1.1 Modifications
3.1.2 Omissions
3.1.3 Additions
3.1.4 Substitution
3.2 Summary linkage
3.3 Mixed linkage
4 Discourse functions
4.1 Conducive factors
4.2 Adding cohesion
4.3 Structuring discourse
5 Other types of repetition
6 Summary and directions for future research
2 The poetics of recapitulative linkage in Matsigenka and mixed Matsigenka-Spanish myth narrations Nicholas Q. Emlen
1 Introduction
2 Matsigenka, Spanish, and myth narration on the Andean-Amazonian frontier
2.1 Languages and communities
2.2 Myth narration
2.3 Recapitulative linkages in myth narrations
3 Formal characterization
3.1 Basic template
3.2 Reference clause/bridging clause relations
3.3 Relations within the second discourse unit
3.4 Some atypical cases
4 Spanish and mixed Spanish-Matsigenka speech
5 Conclusion
3 Short, finite and one-sided bridges in Logoori Hannah Sarvasy
1 Introduction
2 Logoori recapitulative bridging
2.1 Logoori bridging construction form
2.2 Logoori bridging construction prosody
2.3 Logoori bridging construction semantics
2.4 Marginal bridging constructions
3 Alternatives to bridging clauses: nominal repetition
4 Conclusion
4 Bridging constructions in Tsezic languages Diana Forker & Felix Anker
1 Introduction
2 Formal characteristics
2.1 Syntactic properties of the reference clause
2.2 Syntactic properties of the bridging clause
3 Types of bridging constructions
3.1 Recapitulative linkage
3.1.1 Modifications
3.1.2 Omissions
3.1.3 Additions
3.1.4 Substitutions
3.2 Summary linkage
4 Functions of bridging constructions
4.1 Discourse functions
4.2 Genre
4.3 Bridging constructions, repetition, and predicate doubling
5 Bridging constructions in other Nakh-Daghestanian languages
6 Conclusion
5 Bridging constructions in narrative texts in White Hmong (Hmong-Mien) Nerida Jarkey
1 Introduction
1.1 White Hmong language
1.2 Chapter overview
1.3 Data sources
2 Characteristics of bridging constructions in narrative texts
2.1 Frequency
2.2 Position
2.3 Form
2.4 Types of linkage
2.4.1 Recapitulative linkage
2.4.1.1 Almost exact recapitulation
2.4.1.2 Modification
2.4.1.3 Omission
2.4.1.4 Addition
2.4.1.5 Substitution
2.4.2 Summary linkage
2.4.3 Mixed linkage
3 Functions of bridging constructions in White Hmong narratives
3.1 Change in aspect; change in construal
3.2 Return to the event line after supportive material
4 Conclusion
6 The form and function of bridging constructions in Eibela discourse Grant Aiton
1 Introduction and background
2 Clause linking and topic clauses
2.1 Clause linking
2.2 Topicalization
2.3 Topicalized medial clauses
3 Formal aspects of bridging construction in Eibela
3.1 Overview of bridging constructions
3.2 Recapitulative linkage
3.3 Summary linkage
3.3.1 ɛ `do'
3.3.2 wogu `do thus'
3.3.3 hɛnaː `durative'
4 Discourse functions of bridging constructions
4.1 Discourse organization
4.2 Temporal relations
4.3 Causal relations
4.4 Argument tracking
5 Summary
7 Online and offline bridging constructions in Korowai Lourens de Vries
1 Introduction
2 Recapitulative linkage
2.1 Recapitulative linkage with chained clauses
2.2 Recapitulative linkage with thematic clauses
3 Summary linkage
4 Other ways to link sentences
5 Conclusions
8 Recapitulative linkage in Mavea Valérie Guérin
1 A brief introduction
2 Formal characteristics of recapitulative linkage
2.1 Composition, content, and position
2.2 Grammatical status of the bridging clause
3 Bridging constructions in discourse
3.1 Text genres and token frequency of recapitulative linkage
3.2 Analysis of a procedural text
3.3 Analysis of a narrative
4 Recapitulative linkage versus clausal repetition
5 Conclusions
9 Clause repetition as a tying technique in Greek conversation Angeliki Alvanoudi
1 Introduction
2 The role of repetition in conversation
3 Repetition as a tying technique in conversation
4 Clause repetition in Greek conversation
4.1 Data
4.2 Self-repetition
4.3 Repetition of a prior turn at talk
4.4 Summary
5 From repetition to bridging constructions: Language diversity as a continuum
Index
Name index
Language index
Subject index