Editorial: Acquisition of Clause Chaining

Frontiers in Psychology

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Hannah S. Sarvasy¹  Soonja Choi² 

[1] MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University;Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages, San Diego State University, United States

关键词: clause chain;    complex sentence;    Japanese;    Korean;    Ku Waru;    Turkish;    Nungon;    Pitjantjatjara;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.583431

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Research on the acquisition of complex syntax has largely overlooked a special type of complexsentence, found in hundreds of languages outside Western Europe: the clause chain. A clausechain contains as few as one and as many as 20 or more “medial” clauses, with verbal predicatesthat are under-specified for tense and other categories, and a single “final” (finite) clause, with averbal predicate that is fully-specified for tense and, often, other categories. “Medial” clauses relatesyntactically to other clauses in the chain without being subordinated to them. In some languages,each clause in a chain must indicate in advance whether the subject of the next clause will be thesame as or different from that of the current clause, through “switch-reference” marking (Haimanand Munro, 1983; van Gijn and Hammond, 2016). Unlike English complex sentences, clause chains’distribution is partially predictable in that it is often associated with description of temporallysequential events or actions.

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