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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language ;
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences : an overview / Dejan Matić, Rik van Gijn & Robert D. Van Valin Jr.
- Subordinate clauses and exclusive focus in Makhuwa / Jenneke van der Wal
- Left dislocation and subordination in Avatime (Kwa) / Saskia van Putten
- Chechen extraposition as an information-ordering strategy / Erwin Komen
- Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir / Dejan Matić
- Constituent order and information structure in Karitiana / Luciana Storto
- Mood selection in the complement of negation matrices in Spanish / Patxi Laskurain
- Topic management and clause combination in the Papuan language Usan / Ger Reesink
- Switch-reference antecedence and subordination in Whitesands (Oceanic) / Jeremy Hammond
- Repeated dependent clauses in Yurakaré / Rik van Gijn
- Clause chaining, switch reference, and nominalisations in Aguaruna (Jivaroan) / Simon Overall
- The multiple coreference systems in the Ese Ejja subordinate clauses / Marine Vuillermet
- Argument marking and reference tracking in Mekens / Ana Vilacy Galucio.