Transitivity and discourse continuity in Chamorro narratives /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
1987.
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Colección: | Empirical approaches to language typology ;
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1. Functional approach to the study of language
- 2. Data base
- 3. Outline
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Methodology
- 1. Thematicity and topicality
- 2. Topicality and the quantitative method
- 3. Limitations to the quantitative method
- Chapter 3: Chamorro morphology and syntax
- 1. Phonology
- 1.1. Phonemic inventory
- 1.2. Stress rule
- 1.3. I-umlaut
- 2. Morphology
- 2.1. The make-up of the noun phrase
- 2.2. Verb phrase morphology
- 2.3. Word order
- Notes.
- Chapter 4: The role of topicality in a general comparison of the coding devices of transitive propositions
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. Quantitative results and graphs
- 3. Discussion
- 3.1. The transitive construction
- 3.2. The antipassive construction
- 3.3. The passive construction
- 4. Preliminary conclusions
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Functional analysis of passives in Chamorro
- 1. Counterexamples to the general function of the Chamorro passive
- 2. MA-passives as distinct from IN-passives
- 3. Topicality and obligatory passives
- 3.1. Number
- 3.2. Animacy.
- 3.3. Pronouns and the hierarchy of topicality
- 4. Passives, topicality, and agentivity
- 4.1. Topic-shift
- 4.2. Second person Objects
- 4.3. Complement constructions
- 4.4. Direct quote discourse in narratives
- Notes
- Chapter 6: A functional look at the antipassive
- 1. Preliminaries
- 2. The indefinite antipassive
- 3. The demoting antipassive
- 3.1. Affectedness of the object
- 3.2. Identity of the Agent
- 3.3. A pragmatic functional correlate for the demoting antipassive
- 4. Aspect
- 5. General function of the antipassive
- Notes.
- Chapter 7: Complex sentence constructions
- 1. The ergative infix -UM-
- 1.1. Complement clauses
- 1.2. Distribution of -UM- in other complex clauses
- 1.3. General characteristics of the ergative -UM- construction
- 2. Nominalizations
- Notes
- Chapter 8: Discoure organization and paragraph thematicity
- 1. Thematicity and subject coding
- 1.1. Thematicity and the general rule of topicality
- 1.2. Thematicity and the rule of topic-shift
- 1.3. Conclusions
- 2. Thematicity and subject inversion
- Notes
- Chapter 9: Conclusions
- Appendix A: Sample story.
- Appendix B: List of Abbreviations
- References
- Index.