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SUMMARY:Performance-grammar correspondences and the typology of complex se
 ntences - Karsten Schmidtke\, Friedrich Schiller University\, Jena\, Germa
 ny and RCEAL
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CONTACT:Susan Rolfe
DESCRIPTION:This talk provides an overview of a currently thriving researc
 h programme that combines the study of grammatical variation in the world
 ’s languages (linguistic typology) with the detailed analysis of usage p
 atterns in individual languages (corpus linguistics). Hawkins’ (2004) 
 ‘Performance-Grammar Correspondence Hypothesis’ and more general trend
 s in modern linguistic typology (Bickel 2007) suggest that corpus studies 
 can contribute to substantiating and motivating universals of grammatical 
 structure. In this spirit\, I will examine cross-linguistic constraints on
  complex sentences and consider what corpus-based work reveals with respec
 t to their explanation. An illustrative case study will be concerned with 
 the structure of purpose clauses\, particularly their linearization\, verb
 al semantics and argument structure\, but (time permitting) I will also br
 iefly survey analogous work on relativization\, complementation and conver
 bal constructions. \n \n\n\n*References*\n\nBickel\, Balthasar (2007). Typ
 ology in the 21st Century: Major Current Developments. Linguistic Typology
  11: 239-251.\n\nHawkins\, John A. (2004). Efficiency and Complexity in Gr
 ammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. \n
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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