Contrastive topics in Paraguayan Guaraní discourse  

Oleh:

Tonhauser, Judith

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 268–285.
Topik: Contrastive topic; Paraguayan Guaraní; cross-linguistic variation.
Fulltext: 3467-7106-1-PB.pdf (231.33KB)

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The empirical basis of current formal semantic/pragmatic analyses of utterances containing contrastive topics are languages in which the expression that denotes the contrastive topic is marked prosodically, morphologically or syntactically, such as English, German, Korean, Japanese or Hungarian (e.g. Jackendoff 1972; Szabolcsi; Roberts 1998; Buring 1997, 2003; Lee 1999).Such analyses do not extend to Paraguayan Guaraní, a language in which neither prosody, nor word order, nor the contrastive topic clitic =katu identify the contrastive topic. This article develops a formal pragmatic analysis of contrastive topic utterances in Paraguayan Guaraní and explores cross-linguistic similarities and differences in contrastive topic utterances.

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