Research Catalog

Title

Topic and discourse structure in West Greenlandic agreement constructions / Anna Berge.

Author

Berge, Anna

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute

Description

xiv, 445 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington"

Series Statement

Studies in the native languages of the Americas

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Studies in the native languages of the Americas

Subject

• Kalaallisut language > Discourse analysis
• Kalaallisut language > Syntax

Note

• "In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 Overview of West Greenlandic grammar 2 -- 1.2 The Inuit language in syntactic theory 8 -- 1.3 Approaches to the study of discourse 18 -- 1.4 Theoretical approach to discourse structure in West Greenlandic 28 -- 2 Topic (and Theme) as Discourse Roles 31 -- 2.1 Issues in the definition of topic 34 -- 2.2 Issues in the definition of theme 47 -- 2.3 Introduction and identification of topics and themes 59 -- 2.4 Discourse roles 77 -- 3 Ergativity as a Reflection of Topic Status 89 -- 3.1 Ergativity in West Greenlandic 89 -- 3.2 Treatment of ergativity in modern syntactic theories of West Greenlandic 99 -- 3.3 Subjecthood, agency, and topic 103 -- 3.4 Role of topic in the use and distribution of ergative structures in West Greenlandic 110 -- 3.5 Data analysis 113 -- 3.6 Chapter conclusion 165 -- 4 Switch-Reference or Thematic Coherence and Topic Continuity? 171 -- 4.1 Switch-reference in West Greenlandic 171 -- 4.2 Switch-reference as a system of subject or topic/thematic coherence 184 -- 4.3 Role of topic in the use and distribution of switch-reference marking in West Greenlandic 190 -- 4.4 Data analysis 191 -- 4.4.1 Subordinate pronominal inflection 191 -- 4.4.2 Contemporatives and participials 207 -- 4.4.2.1 The contemporative 230 -- 4.4.2.2 The participial 254 -- 4.5 Chapter conclusion 268 -- 5 Conclusion 273 -- 5.1 Findings 273 -- 5.2 Some comments on the role of discourse in linguistic descriptions 276.

ISBN

• 9780803216457 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0803216459 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011001962

OCLC

• 679936504
• SCSB-12386036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library