Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences
Edited by Rik van Gijn, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio
[Typological Studies in Language, 105] 2014. vi, 409 pp.
Saskia van Putten
List of John Benjamins publications for which Saskia van Putten plays a role.
Title
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2024 Chapter 1. Linguistic fieldwork as team science Predication in African Languages, Essegbey, James and Enoch O. Aboh (eds.), pp. 20–42 | Chapter
Linguistic fieldwork is increasingly moving forward from the traditional model of lone fieldworker with a notebook to collaborative projects with key roles for native speakers and other experts and involving the use of different kinds of stimulus-based elicitation methods as well as extensive… read more
2014 Left dislocation and subordination in Avatime (Kwa) Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 71–98 | Article
Left dislocation is characterized by a sentence-initial element which is crossreferenced in the remainder of the sentence, and often set off by an intonation break. Because of these properties, left dislocation has been analyzed as an extraclausal phenomenon. Whether or not left dislocation can… read more