Publications
Publication details [#2604]
Derbyshire, Desmond C. 1977. Discourse redundancy in Hixkaryana. International Journal of American Linguistics 43 (3) : 176–188. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Annotation
A discussion of the functions of redundancy and a presentation - in terms of Halliday and Hasan's (1976: 'Cohesion in English') categories of cohesion - of the forms it takes in discourse in Hixkaryana, a Brasilian language in which it is said to occur very frequently.