The pragmatics of word order : typological dimensions of verb initial languages / Doris L. Payne
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| Creatore: |
Payne, Doris L., 1952-
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| Titolo: |
The pragmatics of word order : typological dimensions of verb initial languages / Doris L. Payne
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| Link to work: |
Pragmatics of word order
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| Pubblicazione: |
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990
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| Estensione: | 1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages) : illustrations. |
| Tipo formato: | unmediated |
| Tipo contenuto: | text |
| Tipo supporto: | volume |
| Disciplina: | 415 |
| Titolo uniforme di collana: | Empirical approaches to language typology ; 7. |
| Soggetto geografico: | Yagua-Sprache |
| Genere/Forma: | Electronic books |
| Classificazione: | 18.91 |
| 17.13 | |
| 18.00 | |
| 58 | |
| Classificazione LOC: | P295 .P35 1990eb |
| Contenuto supplementare: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter One. Introduction""; ""1.1. Genetic and typological affiliations""; ""1.2. Demography and ethnography""; ""1.3. Previous linguistic work on Peba-Yaguan""; ""1.4. Data for the current study""; ""Chapter Two. Constituent Order and Order Correlations""; ""2.1. Observations of constituent order co-occurrences""; ""2.2. The verb initial norm (VIN)""; ""2.3. Selected theoretical approaches accounting for word order correspondences""; ""2.4. Identification of basic constituent order"" |
| ""2.5. Towards an adequate constituent order typology""""Chapter Three. Clausal Phenomena""; ""3.1. Major structural clause types""; ""3.2. Impersonals and functionally related constructions""; ""3.3. Auxiliaries""; ""3.4. Second position clitics""; ""3.5. Causation and desideration""; ""3.6. Parataxis""; ""3.7. Negatives and modals""; ""3.8. Questions""; ""3.9. Comparatives and equatives""; ""3.10. Coordination and alternative relations""; ""3.11. Complex sentences""; ""3.12. Summary""; ""Chapter Four. Noun and Postpositional Phrase Phenomena""; ""4.1. Bound modifying roots"" | |
| ""4.2. Determination of head versus modifier within noun phrases""""4.3. Order of head noun and descriptive modifier in text""; ""4.4. Complex modifying phrases""; ""4.5. Genitives""; ""4.6. Postpositional phrases""; ""4.7. Summary""; ""Chapter Five. Noun Classification and Nominalization""; ""5.1. Derivational uses of classifiers""; ""5.2. Inflectional uses of classifiers""; ""5.3. Anaphora and classifiers""; ""5.4. Theoretical status of Yagua classifiers""; ""Chapter Six. The Verb Phrase and Related Issues""; ""6.1. Verbal nexus""; ""6.2. Adverbs"" | |
| ""6.3. Subject -- object asymmetries: Evidence for a verb phrase containing the object?""""6.4. Incorporation""; ""6.5. An overview of verbal morphology""; ""6.6. The instrumental/comitative -ta""; ""6.7. Morphological causatives with -tániy""; ""6.8. Summary""; ""Chapter Seven. Pragmatic Factors Motivating Order Variation""; ""7.1. General pragmatic structure of Yagua clauses""; ""7.2. The pragmatically marked nucleus""; ""7.3. Function of the PM� component""; ""7.4. Functions of the PM component""; ""7.5. Summary of pragmatically marked types"" | |
| ""7.6. Frequency distribution of syntactic constituent orders""""7.7. Relative order of direct objects and obliques""; ""7.8. Summary""; ""Chapter Eight. Constituent Order in Yagua: Conclusions and Implications""; ""8.1. Arguments in favor of SVO as basic""; ""8.2. Arguments against SVO as basic""; ""8.3. Summary of typological traits""; ""8.4. Implications for head-dependent ordering principles and Hawkins� Universals""; ""8.5. Yagua as a head marking language""; ""Appendix 1: Lagarto (Alligator) Text""; ""Appendix 2: Phonology""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index"" | |
| Restrizioni accesso: | Access is restricted to users affiliated with licensed institutions. |
| Collana: | Empirical approaches to language typology ; 7 |
| ISBN: | 9783110847284 |
| 3110847280 | |
| 0899256120 | |
| 9780899256122 | |
| 3110122073 | |
| 9783110122077 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 004058321 |
| Localizzazioni e accesso elettronico | https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3044897 |
| Collocazione: | Electronic access |
| Lo trovi qui: | New York University |
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