Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions: Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
Autor Anna Bergeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2011
West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this highly nuanced study of West Greenlandic, linguist Anna Berge examines how the speaker’s role affects syntactic structures within discourse. Also included are transcripts of conversations with fluent Native speakers, providing a practical context in which to examine these grammatical questions.
This study was the winner of the prestigious Mary R. Haas Award, presented annually by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, the highest award given in the study of Native languages.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803216457
ISBN-10: 0803216459
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 12 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803216459
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 12 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
Locul publicării:United States
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Notă biografică
Anna Berge is an associate professor of linguistics in the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is the coauthor of Niigugis Mataliin Tunuxtazangis/How the Atkans Talk: A Conversational Grammar.
Cuprins
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Orthographic conventions
<A>1 Introduction</A>
1.1 Overview of West Greenlandic grammar
1.2 The Inuit language in syntactic theory
1.3 Approaches to the study of discourse
1.4 Theoretical approach to discourse structure in West Greenlandic
<A>2 Topic (and theme) as discourse roles</A>
2.1 Issues in the definition of topic
2.2 Issues in the definition of theme
2.3 The introduction and identification of topics and themes
2.4 Discourse roles
<A>3 Ergativity as a reflection of topic status</A>
3.1 Ergativity in West Greenlandic
3.2 The treatment of ergativity in modern syntactic theories of West Greenlandic
3.3 Subjecthood, agency, and topic
3.4 The role of topic in the use and distribution of ergative structures in West Greenlandic
3.5 Data analysis
3.6 Chapter conclusion
<A>4 Switch-reference or thematic coherence and topic continuity?</A>
4.1 Switch-reference in West Greenlandic
4.2 Switch-reference as a system of subject or topic/thematic coherence
4.3 Role of topic in the use and distribution of switch-reference marking in West Greenlandic
4.4 Data analysis
4.4.1 Subordinate pronominal inflection
4.4.2 Contemporatives and participials
4.4.2.1 The contemporative
4.4.2.2 The participial
4.5 Chapter conclusion
<A>5 Conclusion</A>
5.1 Findings
5.2 Some comments on the role of discourse in linguistic descriptions
<A>Appendix</A>
A1 Notes on data collection
A2 Notes on transcription and intonation
Notes
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Orthographic conventions
<A>1 Introduction</A>
1.1 Overview of West Greenlandic grammar
1.2 The Inuit language in syntactic theory
1.3 Approaches to the study of discourse
1.4 Theoretical approach to discourse structure in West Greenlandic
<A>2 Topic (and theme) as discourse roles</A>
2.1 Issues in the definition of topic
2.2 Issues in the definition of theme
2.3 The introduction and identification of topics and themes
2.4 Discourse roles
<A>3 Ergativity as a reflection of topic status</A>
3.1 Ergativity in West Greenlandic
3.2 The treatment of ergativity in modern syntactic theories of West Greenlandic
3.3 Subjecthood, agency, and topic
3.4 The role of topic in the use and distribution of ergative structures in West Greenlandic
3.5 Data analysis
3.6 Chapter conclusion
<A>4 Switch-reference or thematic coherence and topic continuity?</A>
4.1 Switch-reference in West Greenlandic
4.2 Switch-reference as a system of subject or topic/thematic coherence
4.3 Role of topic in the use and distribution of switch-reference marking in West Greenlandic
4.4 Data analysis
4.4.1 Subordinate pronominal inflection
4.4.2 Contemporatives and participials
4.4.2.1 The contemporative
4.4.2.2 The participial
4.5 Chapter conclusion
<A>5 Conclusion</A>
5.1 Findings
5.2 Some comments on the role of discourse in linguistic descriptions
<A>Appendix</A>
A1 Notes on data collection
A2 Notes on transcription and intonation
Notes
References
Index
Recenzii
"[Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions] is comprehensive, written with great clarity, and will be of considerable interest to scholars of syntax and linguists working on such polysynthetic languages."—Stephen Pax Leonard, Journal of Anthropological Research