From Question to Subordination
In most languages of Europe, there is a polysemy pattern to the effect that one and the same marker (e.g., English who) is used to introduce both questions and subordinate clauses. This situation is cross-linguistically unusual, and this chapter attempts to account for why such a polysemy pattern exists and why it is, to a large extent, confined to the languages of Europe or to languages that have been in contact with Indo-European languages.
Keywords: adverbial clause, complement clause, interrogative, relative clause, similative construction, standard marker
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