Prominence in Austronesian / / ed. by Åshild Næss, Jozina Vander Klok, Bethwyn Evans.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Arka, I. Wayan,; Donohue, Mark,; Edwards, Owen,; Evans, Bethwyn,; Fang-ching Teng, Stacy,; Hemmings, Charlotte,; Mazzitelli, Lidia Federica,; Næss, Åshild,; Schokkin, Dineke,; Vander Klok, Jozina,; Zeitoun, Elizabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Evans, Bethwyn,; Næss, Åshild,; Vander Klok, Jozina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 66
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 331 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prominence in Austronesian: An introduction --; The role of prominence in Katripul Puyuma: Voice and coding of arguments in two-place predicates --; Prominence and the (non-)correspondence between topic and subject in Saisiyat --; Information structure and syntactic choices in Kelabit --; The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives --; The dynamic grammar and socio-pragmatics of prominence in Balinese --; Discourse, prominence, and morphosyntax: Managing information structure in Tukang Besi --; Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi NP --; Demonstratives as markers of pragmatic prominence in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic) --; Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau morphosyntax and discourse --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110730753; 9783111332192; 9783111438047
• ISSN: 0933-761X
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110730753
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Åshild Næss, Jozina Vander Klok, Bethwyn Evans.

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in languages from across the Austronesian family. The contributions show how prominence is relevant to understanding asymmetries at different levels of grammatical structure, from discourse and information structure to argument expression and socio-pragmatics. Moreover, common themes across contributions point to crosslinguistic tendencies that underpin the conventionalisation of communicative patterns for coordinating interlocutors' attention, and to points of departure for further crosslinguistic exploration of how grammatical asymmetries can be explained in terms of prominence.