Syntactic embedding or parataxis? Corpus-based typology of complementation in language use

Yukinori Kimoto; Danielle Barth; Nicholas Evans; Asako Shiohara; Norikazu Kogura; I Wayan Arka; Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi; Yuki Kasuga; Carine Kawakami; Keita Kurabe; Heiko Narrog; Hiroki Nomoto; Hitomi Ono; Alan Rumsey; Andrea C. Schalley; Yanti; Akiko Yokoyama

doi:http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24745

Syntactic embedding or parataxis? Corpus-based typology of complementation in language use

Yukinori Kimoto^*, Danielle Barth, Nicholas Evans, Asako Shiohara , Norikazu Kogura, I Wayan Arka, Desak Putu Eka Pratiwi, Yuki Kasuga, Carine Kawakami, Keita Kurabe, Heiko Narrog, Hiroki Nomoto, Hitomi Ono, Alan Rumsey, Andrea C. Schalley, Yanti, Akiko Yokoyama

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This study presents a corpus-based typological analysis of complementation. Complementation is typically used to frame an utterance, thought, desire, or immediate perception. However, many alternative constructions are available to express similar meanings, such as nominalization, adverbial clauses, the verbal complex, and parataxis. This study examines multilingual corpora of 14 languages, and explores how frequently languages use complementation vis-à-vis alternative strategies. We show that half the languages investigated prefer complementation, while others favor parataxis or adverbial clauses over complementation. These results suggest that languages can be classified in terms of the extent to which they favor hierarchical or paratactic structures to frame propositions, and that this correlates with the stylistic features of the given languages.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	126-162
Journal	Language Documentation and Conservation
Volume	SP12
DOIs	https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24745
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2024

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Kimoto, Y., Barth, D., Evans, N., Shiohara , A., Kogura, N., Arka, I. W., Pratiwi, D. P. E., Kasuga, Y., Kawakami, C., Kurabe, K., Narrog, H., Nomoto, H., Ono, H., Rumsey, A., Schalley, A. C., Yanti, & Yokoyama, A. (2024). Syntactic embedding or parataxis? Corpus-based typology of complementation in language use. Language Documentation and Conservation, SP12, 126-162. https://doi.org/http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24745

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