
Prominence in Austronesian
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. January 2024
Book
Hardback
VI, 331 pages
978-3-11-073541-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
3 Karten, 52 s/w Tabellen, 1 s/w Abbildung
1 b/w ill., 52 b/w tbl., 2 b/w and 1 col. maps
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-073541-3 (9783110735413)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Bethwyn Evans | Åshild Næss | Jozina Vander Klok
Prominence in Austronesian
E-Book
01/2024
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
Available for download

Bethwyn Evans | Åshild Næss | Jozina Vander Klok
Prominence in Austronesian
E-Book
01/2024
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€159.95
Available for download
Persons
Bethwyn Evans
, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;
Åshild Næss
and
Jozina Vander Klok
, University of Oslo, Norway.