Topic and focus in Ngardi
Field | Value | Language |
dc.contributor.author | Honeyman, Tom | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2005-10-21 | |
dc.date.available | 2005-10-21 | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-10-21 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/139 | |
dc.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. | en |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The field data for this thesis was collected by Lee Cataldi, funded by ARC Grant No. A10009036, Chief Investigators Christopher Manning and Jane Simpson. | en |
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dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | Australian languages | en |
dc.subject | Ngardi | en |
dc.subject | syntax | en |
dc.subject | information structure | en |
dc.subject | discourse structure | en |
dc.subject | pragmatics | en |
dc.title | Topic and focus in Ngardi | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
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