Carol Genetti | University of california, Santa Barbara
The terms “(clause) chaining” and “converbal constructions” are used for the classification of similar types of clause linkage. Chaining is generally used for constructions which do not entail subordination, while converbs are defined as subordinate. In Dolakhā Newar adverbial and “participial” clauses are not syntactically distinct, but neither are they subordinate. I propose that the term “converb” be redefined as a clause-linkage strategy that subsumes adverbial clauses and clauses akin to the Dolakhāe “participial”, and that there be no requirement that converbs be either subordinate or adverbial. I provide an analysis of “case prolepsis”, the casemarking of an argument by a verb in a non-adjacent clause, and argue that this results from the participial construction applying at a distinct level of clause structure.
2011. The tapestry of Dolakha Newar: Chaining, embedding, and the complexity of sentences. Linguistic Typology 15:1
Hyslop, Gwendolyn
2014. Waves Across the Himalayas: On the Typological Characteristics and History of the Bodic Subfamily of Tibeto‐Burman. Language and Linguistics Compass 8:6 ► pp. 243 ff.
2006. References. In A Grammar of Urarina, ► pp. 935 ff.
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