Publications

Publication details [#10054]

Wiebe, Neil. 1977. The structure of events and participants in Cayapa narrative discourse. In Longacre, Robert E. and Frances Woods, eds. Discourse grammar: Studies in indigenous languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador, vol. 2 and 3. Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 191–227.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse focality | event | narrative | suffix | tagmemics

Language as a subject

Cayapa

Annotation

An analysis of the distribution and function of a number of suffixes in Gayapa discourse, in particular with respect to thematic, focal, and emphatic prominence. The point of view adopted is a tagmemic one.