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Prominence in Austronesian

Prominence in Austronesian

Evans, Bethwyn
Næss, Åshild
Vander Klok, Jozina

Hardcover

Series: Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [Ealt], Book 66

Miscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110735415
ISBN13: 9783110735413
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 337
Weight: 1.43
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in languages from across the Austronesian family. The contributions show how prominence is relevant to understanding asymmetries at different levels of grammatical structure, from discourse and information structure to argument expression and socio-pragmatics. Moreover, common themes across contributions point to crosslinguistic tendencies that underpin the conventionalisation of communicative patterns for coordinating interlocutors' attention, and to points of departure for further crosslinguistic exploration of how grammatical asymmetries can be explained in terms of prominence.

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