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Clauses

Index of SIL publications on Clauses listed by country.

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General works

• Andersen, Francis I. 1994. "Salience, implicature, ambiguity, and redundancy in clause-clause relationships in Biblical Hebrew."
• Diehl, Lon. 1975. "A new look at new nodes: scope of predication and surface structure parsing in natural language."
• Healey, Alan. 1984. "Split phrases and clauses in Greek."
• Healey, Phyllis M. and Alan Healey. 1990. "Greek circumstantial participles: Tracking participants with participles in the Greek New Testament."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1995. "Purpose clauses in Korean and iconicity."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1997. "Purpose clauses in English and Korean."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2008. Review of: Real conditionals, by William G. Lycan and Mental spaces in grammar: conditional constructions, by Barbara Dancygier and Eve Sweetser.  
• Payne, Doris L. and Immanuel Barshi. 1999. "External possession: what, where, how, and why."
• Thomas, David. [1988]. "Clause-efficient vs. paragraph-efficient languages."
• Thomas, David. 1991. "Communicatives, existives, and statives in proto-South-Bahnaric."
• Warren, Andy. 1999. Review of: Clause structure and word order in Hebrew and Arabic: An essay in comparative Semitic syntax, by Ur Shlonsky.
• Watson, Richard L. 1993. Review of: Infinitival complement clauses in English: a study of syntax in discourse, by Christian Mair.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• Patman, Frankie. 1995. A functional account of syntactic similarities in nugunu.  

Côte d’Ivoire

• Person, Ingrid. 1975. "Clauses in Loron."

Ghana

• Bendor-Samuel, John T. 1965. "Problems in the analysis of sentences and clauses in Bimoba."
• Hunt, Geoffrey R. 1975. "Towards an analysis of cause-effect relations."
• Schaefer, Nancy A. 1975. "Gurenne clause structure."

Kenya

• Payne, Doris L. 1997. "Argument structure and locus of affect in the Maasai external possession construction."

Nigeria

• Barnwell, Katharine. 1966. "Notes on the Mbembe clause system—a preliminary analysis."
• Cain, Kathy M. 1991. "An introduction to the distribution of stative clause types in Hausa narrative."
• Thomas, Elaine. 1966. "Preliminary paradigm of some Degema independent clauses."

Sudan

• Buth, Randall J. 1981. "Ergative word order--Luwo is OVS."
• Persson, Andrew M. 1981. "Clause types in Jur Mödö."

Americas

Bolivia

• Camp, Elizabeth L. 1983. "La cláusula como complemento de la acción en cavineña."
• Liccardi, Millicent R. and Elizabeth L. Camp. 1983. Estudios sobre el idioma cavineña.

Brazil

• Butler, Nancy Evelyn. 2003. The multiple functions of the definite article in Terena.  
• Ham, Patricia. 1965. "Multilevel influence on Apinayé multidimensional clause structure."
• Hodsdon, Cathy Ann. 1976. "Análise de cláusulas semânticas na língua makúsi."
• Huestis, George. 1963. "Borôro clause structure."

Canada

• Frantz, Donald G. 1978. "Copying from complements in Blackfoot."

Colombia

• Pierson, Ellen Jean. 1980. "Formas de destacar información en las narrativas del puinave."  

Ecuador

• Orr, Carolyn. 1962. "Ecuador Quichua clause structure."  
• Wilkendorf, Patricia. 1988. "Waorani clause formulas."

Guatemala

• Elliott, Raymond. 1960. "Ixil clause structure."  

Mexico

• Austin, Jeanne and Velma B. Pickett. 1974. "Popoloca clause and sentence."
• Earl, Robert. 1968. "Rincon Zapotec clauses."
• Farrell, Patrick, Stephen A. Marlett and David M. Perlmutter. 1991. "Notions of subjecthood and switch reference: evidence from Seri."
• Hoogshagen, Searle. 1974. "Estructura de la cláusula en mixe de Coatlán."
• Lanier, Nancy. 1968. "Three structural layers in Mezquital Otomí clauses."
• Lyon, Shirley. 1967. "Tlahuitoltepec Mixe clause structure."
• Machin, Polly. 1980. "The clause of Northern Popoloca."
• Marlett, Stephen A. 1985. "Some aspects of Zapotecan clausal syntax."
• Marlett, Stephen A. 1987. "Extraction from complement clauses in Koine Greek."
• Merrifield, William R. and Betty Stoudt. 1967. "Molinos Mixtec clause structure."
• Pike, Evelyn G. 2001. "The amplification clause root in San Miguel El Grande Mixtec."
• Robinson, Dow F. and William R. Sischo. 1969. "Michoacán (Pómaro) Nahual clause structure."  
• Schoenhals, Alvin. 1979. "Totontepec Mixe stage and event clauses."
• Slocum, Marianna C. 1980. "A sketch of Bachajon Tzeltal clause and sentence structure."
• Warkentin, Viola M. and Arabelle A. Whittaker. 1970. "Tumbalá Chol clause structure."
• Willett, Thomas L. 1980. "Clause types in Southeastern Tepehuan."
• Williams, Ann F. and Robert E. Longacre. 1967. "Popoloca clause types."

Peru

• Anderson, Lambert. 1966. "The structure and distribution of Ticuna independent clauses."
• Anderson, Loretta and Mary Ruth Wise. 1963. "Contrastive features of Candoshi clause types."  
• Burtch, Bryan and Mary Ruth Wise. 1968. "Murui (Witotoan) clause structures."
• Cromack, Robert E. 1975. "La forma de las cláusulas en la lengua cashinahua (pano)."  
• Faust, Norma. 1971. "Cocama clause types."  
• Larson, Mildred L. 1963. "Emic classes which manifest the obligatory tagmemes in major independent clause types of Aguaruna (Jivaro)."  
• Montag, Richard. 2005. "Participant referencing in Cashinahua."  
• Smith, Terry P. 1998. "Observaciones sobre el Quechua de Panao: funciones discursivas de las cláusulas dependientes."
• Snell, Betty E. and Mary Ruth Wise. 1963. "Noncontingent declarative clauses in Machiguenga (Arawak)."  
• Sparing-Chávez, Margarethe W. 1997. The functional load of an interclausal reference system: an Amahuaca example.
• Sparing-Chávez, Margarethe W. 2005. "La referencia entre cláusulas en el amahuaca."
• Stewart, Anne M. 1982. "Complexity and constituent order in Matihuaca (Huanuco) Quechua."
• Wroughton, James F. 1988. Major clause constituents of Conchucos (Ancash) Quechua.  

Saint Lucia

• Frank, David. 1992. "Clause versus sentence in St. Lucian French Creole: a paper presented at the Ninth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, held in Cave Hill, Barbados, in August, 1992."

Venezuela

• Payne, Doris L. 2006. "A contrastive study of Panare oral and written narratives."

Asia

Cambodia

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  

China

• Walters, Susan and Ndaxit Atqi. 2005. Existential clauses in Nosu Yi.

India

• Aze, Richard. 1973. "Clause patterns in Parengi-Gorum."  
• Christmas, Raymond B. and J. Elisabeth Christmas. 1973. "Clause patterns in Kupia."  
• Gustafsson, Uwe. 1973. "Clause patterns in Kotia Oriya."  
• McNair, Norman and Helen McNair. 1973. "Clause patterns in Kolami."  

Indonesia

• Maryott, Kenneth R. 1998. "On the evolution of the clause analysis of Sangir."
• Oguri, Hiroko. 1985. "Isirawa clauses."
• Sudaryanto. 1976. "Types of Javanese action clause root: a preliminary study of the Javanese clause."
• van der Wilden, Jelly. 1976. "Some interclausal relations in Kemtuk."
• Westrum, Peter N. 1976. "Preliminary analysis of Berik clause and clause root types."

Laos

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  
• Davis, John J. 1973. "Notes on Nyaheun grammar."  

Malaysia

• Boutin, Michael E. 1988. "Banggi clause structures."
• Brewis, Richard and Stephen H. Levinsohn. 1991. "Topic and emphasis in Timugon Murut."
• King, John Wayne. 1988. "Tombonuo clauses."
• Pekkanen, Inka. 1988. "Clause types in Tatanaʼ."
• Spitzack, John A. 1988. "Kalabuan clauses."

Nepal

• Gordon, Kent. 1973. "Clause patterns in Dhangar-Kurux."  
• Hale, Austin, editor. 1975. Collected papers on Sherpa, Jirel.
• Hale, E. Austin and Kedar P. Shrestha. 1999. "On the senses of the Newar conjunctive participle: -a."
• Holzhausen, Anna. 1973. "Kulunge Rai clause types."
• Schöttelndreyer, Burkhard. 1975. "Clause patterns in Sherpa."
• Strahm, Esther. 1975. "Clause patterns in Jirel."
• Vesalainen, Olavi and Marja Vesalainen. 1980. Clause patterns in Lhomi.
• Watters, David E. 1973. "Clause patterns in Kham."  
• Watters, David E. 2008. "The semantics of clause linking in Kham."
• Williams, Jennifer. 1973. "Clause patterns in Maithili."  

Philippines

• Allen, Janet L. 2003. "Operators and clause structure in Kankanaey."
• Barnard, Myra Lou. 1967. "Dibabawon nonverbal clauses."
• Brainard, Sherri. 1997. "Ergativity and grammatical relations in Karao."
• Drake, Kristi. 2001. "A brief look at Sinama basic verbs and clause structures."
• Forster, Jannette. 1964. "Dual structure of Dibabawon verbal clauses."
• Hartung, Patricia M. 1975. "Clause-modifying particles in Ata Manobo."
• Kroeger, Paul R. 1998. "Clitics and clause structure in Tagalog."
• McLachlin, Betty and Barbara Blackburn. 1968. "Verbal clauses of Sarangani Bilaan."
• Newell, Leonard E. 1964. "Independent clause types of Batad Ifugao."
• Pebley, Carol Jean. 1999. "A sketch of Kagayanen clause structures."
• Ramiscal, Priscilla and Hella E. Goschnick. 1979. "Interclausal relationships in Tina Sambal."  

Taiwan

• Hsieh, Fuhui and Chihsin Chen. 2006. "Nominalization and relativization constructions in Kavalan revisited."  

Thailand

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  
• Thomas, David D. 1983. "Batteries of location clauses in English."

Turkey

• Watters, James K. 1987. "An investigation of Turkish clause linkage."
• Watters, James K. 1993. "An investigation of Turkish clause linkage."

Viet Nam

• Amara Prasithrathsint and Natchanan Yaowapat. 2009. "A typology of relative clauses in Mainland Southeast Asian languages."  
• Banker, John E. 1964. "Transformational paradigms of Bahnar clauses."  
• Blood, Evangeline. 1965. "Clause and sentence types in Mnong Rolom."
• Burton, Eva. 1966. "A brief sketch of Cua clause structure."
• Davis, John J. 1973. "Notes on Nyahuen grammar."  
• Goschnick, Hella E. 1977. "Haroi clauses."
• Thomas, David. 1989. "Some Proto-Bahnaric clause grammar."  
• Watson, Richard L. 1966. "Clause and sentence gradations in Pacoh."

Europe

Turkey

• Watters, James K. 1987. "An investigation of Turkish clause linkage."
• Watters, James K. 1993. "An investigation of Turkish clause linkage."

Pacific

Australia

• Glasgow, Kathleen B. and Mark Garner. 1980. "Clause-level tagmemes of Burarra."
• Hale, Kenneth. 1982. "Some essential features of Warlpiri verbal clauses."
• Hershberger, Ruth. 1964. "A tentative grammatical statement of the simple clause in Gugu-Yalanji."
• Hershberger, Ruth. 1979. "Clause types in Gugu-Yalanji."
• Hughes, Earl J. and Velma J. Leeding. 1971. "A tentative description of Nunggubuyu clauses."
• Kennedy, Rodney J. 1985. "Clauses in Kala Lagaw Ya."
• Street, Chester S. 1980. "The relationship of verb affixation and clause structure in Murinbata."
• Swartz, Stephen M. 1982. "Syntactic structure of Warlpiri clauses."

Micronesia

• Good, Elaine M. 1985. Clause-final determiners in Kosraean.
• Good, Elaine M. 1990. "Determiners and reference in clauses."

Papua New Guinea

• Beaumont, John R. and Margaret Beaumont. 1975. "Iamalele clause types and structure."  
• Davis, Donald R. 1964. Wantoat clauses.  
• Farr, Cynthia J. 1993. "The switch reference clause chaining phenomenon from a Korafe perspective."
• Franklin, Karl J. 1965. "Kewa clause markers."
• Healey, Joan. [1967]. An introduction to Manga Buang clauses.  
• Healey, Phyllis M. 1965. "Telefol clause structure."
• Kooyers, Orneal. 1975. "Hierarchy of Washkuk (Kwoma) clauses."
• Lawrence, Marshall. 1971. "Oksapmin clause structure."
• Lithgow, David. 1969. Muyuw clause types and structure.  
• McCarthy, Joy. 1965. "Clause chaining in Kanite."
• McKaughan. 1967. Review of: Telefol clause structure, by Phyllis M. Healey.
• Parlier, Jim and Alan Healey. 2008. Managalasi nominals.  
• Parrington, Margaret and Doug Parrington. 2009. Notu-Ewage clauses.  
• Ross, Malcolm D. 1993. "Describing interclausal relations in Takia."
• Scorza, David. 1976. Au language word, phrase, clause.  
• Speece, Richard F. 1989. "Redundant clauses in Angave narratives."
• Staalsen, Philip. 1972. "Clause relationships in Iatmul."
• Stringer, Mary and Joyce Hotz. 1971. Waffa syntax-clauses.  
• Thurman, Robert C. 1979. Interclausal relationships in Chuave.
• Van Kleef, Sjaak. 1989. "Tail-head linkage in Siroi."