Prominence in Austronesian

Prominence in Austronesian
Author :
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 338
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783110730753
ISBN-13 : 3110730758
Rating : 4/5 (758 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Prominence in Austronesian by : Bethwyn Evans

Download or read book Prominence in Austronesian written by Bethwyn Evans and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Prominence in Austronesian Related Books

Prominence in Austronesian
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Bethwyn Evans
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-29 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in
Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Atsuko Utsumi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-09 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir
Applicative Morphology
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Sara Pacchiarotti
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-03 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is about recurrent functions of applicative morphology not included in typologically-oriented definitions. Based on substantial cross-linguistic evide
Perspectives on information structure in Austronesian languages
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Sonja Riesberg
Categories: Austronesian languages
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Language Science Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the fir
Word Prominence in Languages with Complex Morphologies
Language: en
Pages: 721
Authors: Ksenia Bogomolets
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume focuses on the theoretical and analytical challenges that languages with complex morphologies pose for the theory and typology of word-level prosodi