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Topic and discourse structure in West Greenlandic agreement constructions / Anna Berge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berge, Anna.
- Series:
- Studies in the native languages of the Americas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kalaallisut language--Discourse analysis.
- Kalaallisut language.
- Kalaallisut language--Syntax.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (465 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "[Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions] is comprehensive, written with great clarity, and will be of considerable interest to scholars of syntax and linguists working on such polysynthetic languages."-Stephen Pax Leonard, Journal of Anthropological Research.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Orthographic Conventions; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Overview of West Greenlandic grammar; 1.2 Inuit language in syntactic theory; 1.3 Approaches to the study of discourse; 1.4 Theoretical approach to discourse structure in West Greenlandic; 2 Topic (and theme) as discourse roles; 2.1 Issues in the definition of topic; 2.2 Issues in the definition of theme; 2.3 Introduction and identification of topics and themes; 2.4 Discourse roles; 3 Ergativity as a reflection of topic status
- 3.1 Ergativity in West Greenlandic3.2 Treatment of ergativity in modern syntactictheories of West Greenlandic; 3.3 Subjecthood, agency, and topic; 3.4 Role of topic in the use and distribution ofergative structures in West Greenlandic; 3.5 Data analysis; 3.6 Chapter conclusion; 4 Switch-reference or thematic coherence and topic continuity?; 4.1 Switch-reference in West Greenlandic; 4.2 Switch-reference as a system of subjector topic/thematic coherence; 4.3 Role of topic in the use and distribution of switch reference marking in West Greenlandic; 4.4 Data analysis
- 4.4.1 Subordinate pronominal inflection4.4.2 Contemporatives and participials; 4.4.2.1 The contemporative; 4.4.2.2 The participial; 4.5 Chapter conclusion; 5 Conclusion; 5.1 Findings; 5.2 Some comments on the role of discourse in linguistic descriptions; Appendix; A1 Notes on data collection; A2 Notes on transcription and intonation; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- "In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613664686
- 9781280687747
- 1280687746
- 9780803226869
- 0803226861
- OCLC:
- 742517462
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