Information Structure in Indigenous Languages of the Americas: Syntactic Approaches

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2010

Information Structure in Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Syntactic Approaches

Edited by: José Camacho , Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Liliana Sánchez

Volume 225 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110228533

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About this book

The study of the interaction between syntax and information structure has attracted a great deal of attention since the publication of foundational works on this subject such as Enric Vallduví's (1992) The Informational Component and Knud Lambrecht's (1994) Information Structure and Sentence Form. The book inserts itself in this contemporary interest by providing a collection of articles on different aspects of the syntax-pragmatics interface in the indigenous languages of The Americas.

The first chapter provides a brief introduction of the some of the basic descriptive issues addressed in them, and of some of the theoretical tools that have been developed to analyze them. The reader finds articles that focus mostly on empirical issues, while others are mostly oriented to theoretical issues. Diverse theoretical approaches are addressed, including Minimalism, Optimality-theoretic syntax, and Meaning-Text Theory.

The volume includes articles on the following topics: the grammatical means to encode pragmatic notions in Tariana (A. Aikhenvald); the relation between clause structure and information structure in Lushootseed (D. Beck); the split distribution of null subjects in Shipibo (J. Camacho and J. Elías-Ulloa); the syntactic structure of left-peripheral discourse-related functions in Kuikuro (B. Franchetto and M. Santos), an agglutinative and head final language; word order and focus patterns in Yaqui (L. Guerrero and V. Belloro); SVO and topicalization in Yucatec Maya (R. Gutiérrez-Bravo and J. Monforte); the structure of the left-periphery in Karaja (Maia) and the interaction between the wh-words and polarity sensitivity in Southern Quechua (L. Sánchez).

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José Camacho, Rutgers University, USA; Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, El Colegio de México, México; Liliana Sánchez, Rutgers University, USA.

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Introduction José Camacho, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Liliana Sánchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Language contact and pragmatic notions: Tariana in its multilingual context Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Communicative structure in Lushootseed syntax: Thematicity and focalization David Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Null subjects in Shipibo switch-reference systems José Camacho and José Elías-Ulloa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Cartography of expanded CP in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) Bruna Franchetto and Mara Santos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
On word order and information structure in Yaqui Lilián Guerrero and Valeria A. Belloro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
On the nature of word order in Yucatec Maya Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo and Jorge Monforte Madera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
The structure of CP in Karaja Marcus Maia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Agree and the licensing of wh-words and polarity sensitive items in Southern Quechua Liliana Sánchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Academics and Graduate Students of Linguistics
Pages
- Main content: 217
Illustrations
- Tables: 25
- Other: Num. figs. and tabs.
Keywords: Languages of The Americas; Syntax; Information Structure

eBook

Published: July 30, 2010
ISBN: 9783110228533

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Published: July 16, 2010
ISBN: 9783110228526