The Expression of Noun Phrases in Halkomelem Texts  

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Gerdts, Donna B. ; Hukari, Thomas E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 50 no. 3-4 (2008), page 324-361.
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This article discusses overt versus zero noun phrases in transitive clauses based on data from two Halkomelem texts. Transitive clauses with two postverbal noun phrases are relatively rare. The most common clause type is one in which the sole postverbal noun phrase is the object. This follows from the previously noted facts that topics are often subjects and that topics tend to be zero. Overt noun phrases are used to refresh or reestablish a topic and also to end a discourse segment. This helps explain the residue of examples where the sole postverbal noun phrase is the subject. Nontopic noun phrases, including objects, tend to be overt, even when they closely follow an overt expression of the same noun phrase. Certain verbs though, such as lemœt ‘look at it’, seem to prefer zero objects, thus largely accounting for clauses with no overt noun phrases.

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