The pragmatics of word order typological dimensions of verb initial languages
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter
1990.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Empirical approaches to language typology ; 7. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33444389*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""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 -tA{iexcl}niy""; ""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 PMa{euro}? 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 Hawkinsa{euro}? Universals""; ""8.5. Yagua as a head marking language""; ""Appendix 1: Lagarto (Alligator) Text""; ""Appendix 2: Phonology""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
