Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences / edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten, Ana Vilacy Galucio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gijn, Rik van.

Hammond, Jeremy.

Matić, Dejan.

Putten, Saskia van.

Galucio, Ana Vilacy.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 105.

Typological studies in language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Sentences.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

vi, 409 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]

Contents:

1 Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences p. 1 / Dejan Mati#263;; Rik van Gijn; Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

2 Part I. Information structure in complex sentences

3 Subordinate clauses and exclusive focus in Makhuwa p. 45 / Jenneke van der Wal

4 Left dislocation and subordination in Avatime (Kwa) p. 71 / Saskia van Putten

5 Chechen extraposition as an information ordering strategy p. 99 / Erwin R. Komen

6 Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir p. 127 / Dejan Mati#263;

7 Constituent order and information structure in Karitiana p. 163 / Luciana Storto

8 Mood selection in the complement of negation matrices in Spanish p. 193 / Patxi Laskurain Ibarluzea

9 Part II. Reference tracking in complex sentences

10 Topic management and clause combination in the Papuan language Usan p. 231 / Ger P. Reesink

11 Switch-reference antecedence and subordination in Whitesands (Oceanic) p. 263 / Jeremy Hammond

12 Repeated dependent clauses in Yurakaré p. 291 / Rik van Gijn

13 Clause chaining, switch reference and nominalisations in Aguaruna (Jivaroan) p. 309 / Simon E. Overall

14 The\multiple coreference systems in the Ese Ejja subordinate clauses p. 341 / Marine Vuillermet

15 Argument marking and reference tracking in Mekens p. 373 / Ana Vilacy Galucio

16 Author index p. 397

17 Language index p. 399

18 Subject index p. 401.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9027206864

9789027206862

OCLC:

862346270