Download or read book The Semantics of Clause Linking written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon's opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's concluding synthesis is provided by Professor Aikhenvald.