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15 - Coordination and Subordination in Slavic Languages

from Part 3 - Syntax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

By
Milan Mihaljević
Edited by
Danko Šipka  and
Wayles Browne
Danko Šipka
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Wayles Browne
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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This chapter addresses coordination and subordination in Slavic languages. The author presents the architecture of the following types of coordination: conjunctive, disjunctive, asyndetic and polysyndetic, adversative, correlative (initial), non-constituent, and comitative. He then goes on to discuss the architecture of subordination: complement clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses.

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coordinationsubordinationrelative clauseadverbial clausecoordinatorparticlepronoun
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The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 304 - 336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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