EAN: 9783110228526

INFORMATION STRUCTURE IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES O...

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).

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