MatrixDoc_ClausalModifiers

Documentation for the Grammar Matrix Customization Clausal Modifiers Library

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By Kristen Howell

Introduction

This document presents background information on the clausal modifiers library of the Grammar Matrix Customization System (Bender et al., 2002; Bender and Flickinger, 2005; Bender et al., 2010) and provides instructions for filling out this section of the questionnaire. General instructions for using the questionnaire can be found here.

Citing the Clausal Modifier Library

= Adverbial Clausal Modifiers = Drawing from the typological survey of Thompson et al. (2007) and description in Li and Thompson (1989), we divide adverbial clausal modifiers into three syntactic categories: Those marked by a free subordinator morpheme (1), those marked by a free subordinator morpheme pair (one in the subordinate clause and one in the matrix clause) (2), and those marked by special verbal morphology (3).

(1) Ame ga agaru to, Gon wa hotto shite ana kara haidemashita

• rain NOM stop when Gon TOP relief performing hole from snuck.out `When the rain stopped, Gon got relieved and came out of the hole' [jpn] (Thompson et al., 2007)

(2) Yīnwèi tiān hēi le, suǒyǐ wǒ méi chǖ-qu

• because sky black CRS so I no exit-go `Because it had gotten dark, I didn't go out.' [cmn] (Li and Thompson, 1989)

(3) Yaʔáʃ ŋéŋi $uŋá-l kí-ʃ pu-wá-qi-pi

• man leave.remote woman house.ACC her-sweep-PURP\\ `The man left in order for the woman to sweep the house' [lui] (Thompson et al., 2007)

Options

[This section is currently under construction.] The Clausal Modifiers page of the customization system supports a wide range of options for clausal modifier strategies.

Analyses

[This section is currently under construction.]

References

Charles N Li and Sandra A Thompson. 1989. Mandarin Chinese: A functional reference grammar. Univ of California Press.

Sandra A Thompson, Robert E Longacre, and Shin Ja J Hwang. 2007. Adverbial clauses. Language typology and syntactic description. Volume 2: Complex constructions. ed. by Timothy Shopen. 237269. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.