Information structure in lesser-described languages : : studies in prosody and syntax / / edited by Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude, Martine Vanhove.
"The articles compiled in this volume offer new insights into the wealth of prosodic and syntactic phenomena involved in the encoding of information structure categories. They present data from languages which are rarely, if ever, taken into account in the most prominent approaches in informati...
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| Superior document: | Studies in language companion series (SLCS), volume 199 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018] 2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in language companion series ;
v. 199. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (458 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Investigating information structure in lesser-known and endangered languages: An introduction / Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove
- Prosodic separation of postverbal material in Georgian: A corpus study on syntax-phonology interface / Stavros Skopeteas, Caroline Fery and Rusudan Asatiani
- Prosodic and morphological focus marking in Ixcatec (Otomanguean) / Evangelia Adamou, Matthew Gordon and Stefan Th. Gries
- On being first / Candide Simard
- Factors behind variation in marking information structure: Contributions from Central Pomo / Marianne Mithun
- Macrosyntactic corpus annotation: The case of Zaar / Bernard Caron
- Focus marking and differential argument marking: The emergence of bidirectional case marking in Wan / Tatiana Nikitina
- A topic-marking cleft? Analyzing clause-initial pronouns in Movima / Katharina Haude
- Subjects and focus in clefts: The case of Tilapa Otomi / Enrique L. Palancar
- The influence of the state distinction on word order and information structure in Kabyle and Siwi (Berber) / Amina Mettouchi and Valentina Schiattarella
- Information structure in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Telkepe / Eleanor Coghill
- Information structure in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English / Melanie Green and Gabriel Ozon
- The illocutionary basis of information structure: The Language into Act Theory (L-AcT) / Emanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia
- Annotation guidelines for questions under discussion and information structure / Arndt Riester, Lisa Brunetti and Kordula De Kuthy.