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Publication details [#64913]

Schnell, Stefan and Danielle Barth. 2018. Discourse motivations for pronominal and zero objects across registers in Vera'a. Language Variation and Change 30 (1) : 51–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

motivation | object | pronoun | register | text

Language as a subject

Vera’a

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study quantitatively explores the option between pronominal and zero form for objects in the Oceanic language Vera'a, in texts from two registers with discourse topics of three distinct ontological class memberships.