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Publication details [#11886]

Maslova, Elena. 1997. Yukagir Focus in a Typological Perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (4) : 457–475. 19 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse focality | focus | grammaticalization | language typology | syntax1

Language as a subject

Yukagir

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article reports on Yukaghir (Siberian) focus construction, function and marking strategy as a test case of typological analysis of grammaticalization of discourse-responsive syntactic topics.