Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume I: Clause Structure, Second edition
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Suggestions for further reading There are very few comprehensive cross-linguistic studies on the form and function of sentence types. Apart from the present chapter there is only its counterpart in the 1985 edition (Sadock and Zwicky (1985)) and Palmer’s (very readable) volume on mood and modality (1986). Some methodologi- cal problems relating to the identification of sentence types are discussed in Croft (1994). Moreover, there are a few studies on specific sentence types (as well as related phenomena) across different languages, although the number of studies available is surprisingly low. Ultan (1978) is the classic typological article on interrogatives. Chisholm, Milic, and Greppin (1984) contains useful descrip- tions of interrogative constructions from various languages (Japanese, Russian, Ute, etc.). Cheng (1997) offers a cross-linguistic study of wh-questions in the framework of government and binding. A recent summary of the cross-linguistic properties of interrogative constructions can be found in Siemund (2001). The main source for imperatives and related constructions (hortatives, optatives, etc.) are Xrakovskij (2001), van der Auwera and Lejeune (2005a, 2005b), as well as van der Auwera et al. (2004). A new major cross-linguistic study of imperatives is Aikhenvald (2003). Cross-linguistic aspects of exclamative constructions are discussed in Michaelis (2001). Declaratives are usually dis- cussed in connection with markers of evidentiality: Chafe and Nichols (1986), Johanson and Utas (2000). 324 Ekkehard K¨onig and Peter Siemund As for descriptions of sentence types in individual languages, the single best investigated language is probably German, with the two extensive volumes edited by Rosengren (1992a, 1993) still forming the major point of orienta- tion. More recent discussions of German sentence types can be found in Reis (1999) and Lohnstein (2000). For English interrogatives and questions, use- ful starting points are Pope (1976) and Huddleston (1994). E. Davies (1986) provides detailed information on English imperatives. Comprehensive descrip- tions, however, are only available for relatively few languages (even among the well-studied languages) so that an approach via reference grammars is mostly inevitable. Theoretical problems pertaining to the form–function relationship of sen- tence types are discussed inter alia in Sadock (1974), Searle, Kiefer, and Bier- wisch (1980), Levinson (1983), Zaefferer (1990), Tsohatzidis (1994). The clas- sic (still widely discussed) studies on speech acts and the function of utter- ances are Austin (1962) and Searle (1969) as well as Searle’s subsequent publications. 6 Passive in the world’s languages Edward L. Keenan and Matthew S. Dryer Download 1.59 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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