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Creider, Chet A. 1978. Anaphora in Kalenjin (Nandi-Kipsigis). In Hinds, John V., ed. Anaphora in discourse. Linguistic Research. pp. 180–222.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

On anaphoric processes on the sentence level and the discourse level in Kalenjin (a Nilotic language). Concerning the discourse level, the utility of Prague School notions like theme/rheme and predictable/unpredictable information is shown, and one type of discourse, conversation, is considered with respect to its organization, in terms of conversational roles, discourse topics, adjacency pairs, etc..