Download or read book A Typology of Purpose Clauses written by Karsten Schmidtke-Bode and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- 1. Aims and scope of the book -- 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations -- 3. The grammar of purpose -- 4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences -- Summary: the developmental trajectories of purpose clauses -- Conclusion and outlook -- References