Beyond the clause: Encoding and inference in clause combining KU Leuven
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven, Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven
The aim of this project is to examine the interplay between inference and encoding in the emergence and development of clause combining, using methods from interactional linguistics, typology, historical linguistics and synchronic corpus analysis. The empirical focus is on how inferences can mediate paths between clause-internal categories and specialized complex sentence markers, for instance the development of modal elements to markers of ...