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Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences.
This paper discusses argument marking and reference tracking in Mekens complex clauses and their correlation to information structure. The distribution of pronominal arguments in Mekens simple clauses follows an absolutive pattern with main verbs. Complex clauses maintain the morphological absolutiv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
105. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This paper discusses argument marking and reference tracking in Mekens complex clauses and their correlation to information structure. The distribution of pronominal arguments in Mekens simple clauses follows an absolutive pattern with main verbs. Complex clauses maintain the morphological absolutive argument marking, but show a nominative pattern with respect to argument reference tracking, since transitive and intransitive subjects function as syntactic pivots. The language extends the use of argument-marking verb morphology to control the reference of discourse participants across clauses. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1306462983 9781306462983 9789027270757 9027270759 9027206864 9789027206862 |