Information structure in Indigenous languages of the Americas [[electronic resource] ] : syntactic approaches / / edited by José Camacho, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo, Liliana Sánchez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784913503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-72312-X; 9786612723124; 3-11-022853-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Collana: Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs, , 1861-4302; 255
• Classificazione: EE 2050
• Altri autori (Persone): CamachoJosé; Gutiérrez BravoRodrigo <1972->; SánchezLiliana
• Disciplina: 498
• Soggetti: Indians of South America - Languages - Grammar; Indians of North America - Languages - Grammar; Indians of South America - Languages; Indians of North America - Languages; Discourse analysis; Language and culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Language contact and pragmatic notions: Tariana in its multilingual context -- Communicative structure in Lushootseed syntax: Thematicity and focalization -- Null subjects in Shipibo switch-reference systems -- Cartography of expanded CP in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) -- On word order and information structure in Yaqui -- On the nature of word order in Yucatec Maya -- The structure of CP in Karaja -- Agree and the licensing of wh-words and polarity sensitive items in Southern Quechua -- Backmatter
• Sommario/riassunto: 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).