Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • 1 Answering systems
  • 1.1 Semantics
  • 1.2 Forms
  • 1.3 An overview of Welsh responsives
  • 2 Welsh echo responsives
  • 2.1 Perfect responsives: tense and aspect
  • 2.2 Full echo and substitute responsives: types of finite verbs
  • 2.3 Agreement features: person deixis
  • 2.4 Agreement features: number
  • 2.5 Forms of bod â€?beâ€?
  • 2.6 More about negative forms
  • 2.7 Summary
  • 3 Welsh echo and nonecho responsives
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Discourse sources
  • 3.3 Syntactic form
  • 3.4 Logical form3.5 Summary
  • 4 Discourse functions of Welsh responsives
  • 4.1 Answers
  • 4.2 Agreements and disagreements
  • 4.3 Response questions
  • 4.4 Acknowledgements
  • 4.5 Corrections
  • 4.6 Polarity of responsives
  • 5 A formal analysis of Welsh responsives
  • 5.1 VPless elliptical sentences
  • 5.2 Responsives and VPless elliptical sentences
  • 5.3 A generalized analysis
  • 6 Childrenâ€?s use of Welsh responsives
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Echo responsives
  • 6.3 Nonecho responsives
  • 6.4 Nonecho or echo responsives
  • 6.5 Forms of verbal responsives: positive and negative6.6 Summary
  • 7 Language contact: the influence of English
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Language background
  • 7.3 Conclusions
  • 8 Internal causes of variation
  • 8.1 Isomorphism
  • 8.2 Discourse
  • 8.3 Semantics
  • 8.4 Overall summary and conclusions
  • Appendix I. Conventions in the corpus examples
  • Appendix II. Conventions in the interlinear glosses
  • Appendix III. Additional examples of responsives
  • Appendix IV. Examples of formal answering systems
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index