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Language description informed by theory /

This chapter examines the connections between shared cultural knowledge about kinship structure and the pragmatic inferences that enable interlocutors to assess each other's (multiple) perspectives. By drawing on Bininj Gunwok conversational data this chapter shows how linguistic choices are in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pensalfini, Rob, Turpin, Myfany, Guillemin, Diana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Austronesian
Publicado: Amsterdam, The Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Colección:Studies in language companion series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The grammatical status of Garrwa pronouns / Ilana Mushin
  • Verbs as spatial deixis markers in Jingulu / Rob Pensalfini
  • Inflectional classes in morphology: Description and reconstruction / Harold Koch
  • Marking definiteness or specificity, not necessarily both: Evidence of a principle of economy from Mauritian Creole / Diana Guillemin
  • Theory and experiment in parametric minimalism: The case of Romance negation / Giuseppe Longobardi
  • Serial verbs in Wambaya / Rachel Nordlinger
  • Nominals as adjuncts or arguments: Further evidence from language mixing / Felicity Meakins
  • The case of the invisible postman: The current status of the French future tense / Lynn Wales
  • Manner and result: A view from clean / Beth Levin and Malka Rappaport Hovav
  • Shifting relations: Structure and agency in the language of Bininj Gunwok kinship / Murray Garde.