Information Structure in Indigenous Languages of the Americas : : Syntactic Approaches / / ed. by José Camacho, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Liliana Sánchez.

The study of the interaction between syntax and information structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric Vallduví's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's (1994) Information Structure and Senten...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 225
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Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Language contact and pragmatic notions: Tariana in its multilingual context
  • Communicative structure in Lushootseed syntax: Thematicity and focalization
  • Null subjects in Shipibo switch-reference systems
  • Cartography of expanded CP in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil)
  • On word order and information structure in Yaqui
  • On the nature of word order in Yucatec Maya
  • The structure of CP in Karaja
  • Agree and the licensing of wh-words and polarity sensitive items in Southern Quechua
  • Backmatter