Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages
Studies in prosody and syntax
Editors
The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in information structure theory, and which belong to the Afroasiatic, Amerindian, Australian, Caucasian, and Niger-Congo language stocks. In addition to the significant descriptive value of these pioneering contributions, several studies also draw attention to previously undescribed or typologically rare phenomena. By adapting a variety of methods to under-described and endangered languages, ranging from experimental to naturalistic corpus studies, this volume also aims to serve as an invitation for further research in this direction.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 199] 2018. vi, 450 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
1–14
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Part I. Prosody and information structure: Methods and analyses
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18–191
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17–50
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51–84
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85–118
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119–156
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157–192
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Part II. Syntax and information structure: Corpus-driven studies
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196–355
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195–216
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217–244
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245–264
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265–296
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297–328
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329–356
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Part III. Views from better described languages: Theories and methods
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360–443
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360–402
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403–444
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Language index
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445–446
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Notion index
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447–450
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Sound files
Chapter 13. The illocutionary basis of information structure
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax