Prominence in Austronesian
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Prominence in Austronesian

  1. 337 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Prominence in Austronesian

About this book

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in languages from across the Austronesian family. The contributions show how prominence is relevant to understanding asymmetries at different levels of grammatical structure, from discourse and information structure to argument expression and socio-pragmatics. Moreover, common themes across contributions point to crosslinguistic tendencies that underpin the conventionalisation of communicative patterns for coordinating interlocutors' attention, and to points of departure for further crosslinguistic exploration of how grammatical asymmetries can be explained in terms of prominence.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9783110735413
eBook ISBN
9783110730814
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Prominence in Austronesian: An introduction
  5. The role of prominence in Katripul Puyuma: Voice and coding of arguments in two-place predicates
  6. Prominence and the (non-)correspondence between topic and subject in Saisiyat
  7. Information structure and syntactic choices in Kelabit
  8. The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives
  9. The dynamic grammar and socio-pragmatics of prominence in Balinese
  10. Discourse, prominence, and morphosyntax: Managing information structure in Tukang Besi
  11. Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi NP
  12. Demonstratives as markers of pragmatic prominence in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic)
  13. Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau morphosyntax and discourse
  14. Index

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