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| Title: | Topic and focus in Ngardi |
| Authors: | Honeyman, Tom |
| Keywords: | Australian languages Ngardi syntax information structure discourse structure pragmatics |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the discourse pragmatics of the non- configurational (free word order) Australian language Ngardi. Ngardi is a Ngumbin language spoken by a small number of people east of the Kimberleys. I examine Topic and Focus in equational sentences and question forms gathered from transcripts of card games played by Ngardi speakers. I examine this data from the Information Structure perspective as defined by Lambrecht (1994) and include some discussion of Choi's (2001) NEW and PROM binary features. I conclude that a range of constituents to the left of the obligatory pronominal clitics are conditioned by discourse pragmatic factors. |
| Description: | This is an Honours thesis based on field data and grammatical analysis collected by Lee Cataldi with help from Tjama Napanangka. The supervisors were William Foley and Jane Simpson. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/139 |
| Appears in Collections: | Honours Theses |
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