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Prominence in Austronesian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evans, Bethwyn.
- Series:
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] Series
- Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] Series ; v.66
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2024.
- Summary:
- The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Prominence in Austronesian: An introduction
- The role of prominence in Katripul Puyuma: Voice and coding of arguments in two-place predicates
- Prominence and the (non-)correspondence between topic and subject in Saisiyat
- Information structure and syntactic choices in Kelabit
- The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives
- The dynamic grammar and socio-pragmatics of prominence in Balinese
- Discourse, prominence, and morphosyntax: Managing information structure in Tukang Besi
- Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi NP
- Demonstratives as markers of pragmatic prominence in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic)
- Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau morphosyntax and discourse
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783110730753
- 3110730758
- OCLC:
- 1416301407
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