Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences
By: edited by Rik van Gijn, University of Zürich ; Jeremy Hammond, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ; Dejan Matić, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ; Saskia van Putten, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ; Ana Vilacy Galucio, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi-MCTI
Series: Typological studies in language -- volume 105
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9789027206862; 9789027270757
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar; Sentences; Reference (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences : an overview / Dejan Matić, Rik van Gijn & Robert D. Van Valin Jr.; title: Subordinate clauses and exclusive focus in Makhuwa / Jenneke van der Wal; title: Left dislocation and subordination in Avatime (Kwa) / Saskia van Putten; title: Chechen extraposition as an information-ordering strategy / Erwin Komen; title: Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir / Dejan Matić; title: Constituent order and information structure in Karitiana / Luciana Storto; title: Mood selection in the complement of negation matrices in Spanish / Patxi Laskurain; title: Topic management and clause combination in the Papuan language Usan / Ger Reesink; title: Switch-reference antecedence and subordination in Whitesands (Oceanic) / Jeremy Hammond; title: Repeated dependent clauses in Yurakaré / Rik van Gijn; title: Clause chaining, switch reference, and nominalisations in Aguaruna (Jivaroan) / Simon Overall; title: The multiple coreference systems in the Ese Ejja subordinate clauses / Marine Vuillermet; title: Argument marking and reference tracking in Mekens / Ana Vilacy Galucio.