Grammar and inference in conversation : identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese / Michael C. Ewing.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Ewing, Michael C.

Series:

Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 18.

Studies in discourse and grammar, 0928-8929 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Javanese

Subjects (All):

Javanese language--Dialects--Indonesia--Cirebon (Kabupaten)--Grammar.

Javanese language.

Javanese language--Dialects--Indonesia--Cirebon (Kabupaten)--Clauses.

Javanese language--Dialects--Indonesia--Cirebon (Kabupaten)--Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2005.

Language Note:

Javanese

Summary:

This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their structure explicitly and redundantly, many other clauses include few if any of these grammatical resources. These extremes mark a cline between the morphosyntactic and paratactic expression of clauses. The situation is thrown into relief by the frequency of unexpressed referents and conversationalists' heavy reliance on shared experience and cultural knowledge. In all cases, pragmatic inference grounded in the interactional context is essential for establishing not only the discourse functions, but indeed also the very structure of clauses in conversational Javanese. This study contributes to our understanding of transitivity, emergent constituency, prosodic organization and the co-construction of meaning and structure by conversational interlocutors.

Contents:

Grammar and Inference in Conversation

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1.1. Grammar and discourse

1.2. Cirebon Javanese

1.3. Data collection

1.4. Organization of this study

The morphology of predicates

2.1. Predicates

2.2. Verbal predicates: Intransitive clauses

2.2.1. Monomorphemic intransitive verbs

2.2.2. Intransitive verbal morphology

2.2.3. Existential constructions

2.2.4. Summary: Intransitive verbal predicates

2.3. Verbal predicates: Transitive clauses

2.3.1. P-trigger constructions

2.3.2. A-trigger constructions

2.3.3. Transitive suffixes

2.3.4. Discussion: Transitive verb morphology

2.4. Non-verbal predicates

2.4.1. Nominal predicates

2.4.2. Prepositional phrase predicates

2.4.3. Other adverbial predicates

2.4.4. Expressives as predicates

2.4.5. Summary: Non-verbal predicates

2.5. Predicate morphology and clause structure

The morphology of nominal expressions

3.1. Form and function of nominal expressions

3.2. Nominal expressions

3.2.1. Headless relative clauses

3.2.2. Lexical nouns

3.2.3. Names, kinship terms, titles, and vocatives

3.2.4. Pronouns

3.2.5. Unexpressed participants

3.2.6. Summary

3.3. Modification

3.3.1. Quantifiers

3.3.2. Modification by predicates

3.3.3. Demonstrative determiners

3.3.4. Association

3.4. Case marking

3.5. Summary

Information flow

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Ideas in the mind

4.2.1. Activation

4.2.2. Identifiability

4.2.3. Identifiability pathway

4.3. Referentiality

4.3.1. Generality

4.3.2. Discourse referentiality

4.4. Configurations of information flow properties

4.5. Summary

Constituents and constituent order

5.1. Constituency

5.2. The intonation unit.

5.2.1. Identification of intonation units

5.2.2. IU-final particles

5.2.3. Summary: The intonation unit

5.3. Prosodic clusters

5.4. Constituent order

5.4.1. Constituency order in intransitive clauses

5.4.2. Constituency order in transitive clauses

5.5. P-trigger clauses

5.5.1. Single-IU P-trigger clauses

5.5.2. Multi-IU P-trigger clauses

5.5.3. Summary: P-trigger clauses

5.6. A-trigger clauses

5.6.1. Single-IU A-trigger clauses

5.6.2. Multi-IU A-trigger clauses

5.6.3. Summary: A-trigger clauses

5.7. Hierarchical constituency

5.8. Summary

Clauses and interaction

6.1. Working together

6.2. Differing amounts of morphosyntax

6.2.1. Buildup

6.2.2. Breakdown

6.3. Tracking referents in extended discourse

6.4. Summary: Clauses and interaction

Conclusion

7.1. The clause in Cirebon Javanese conversation

7.2. What are arguments?

7.3. What are clauses?

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

References

Appendix

Orthographic note

Transcription conventions

Abbreviations

Author index

Subject index

The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Originally presented: as author's dissertation (Ph.D) -- University of California, Santa Barbara.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-15619-5

9786612156199

90-272-9390-2

OCLC:

191928016