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Prominence in Austronesian, Hardback Book

Prominence in Austronesian Hardback

Edited by Bethwyn Evans, Ashild Næss, Jozina Vander Klok

Part of the Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] series

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The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar.

This volume explores the encoding of prominence in languages from across the Austronesian family.

The contributions show how prominence is relevant to understanding asymmetries at different levels of grammatical structure, from discourse and information structure to argument expression and socio-pragmatics.

Moreover, common themes across contributions point to crosslinguistic tendencies that underpin the conventionalisation of communicative patterns for coordinating interlocutors' attention, and to points of departure for further crosslinguistic exploration of how grammatical asymmetries can be explained in terms of prominence.

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