Whitesands echo subject in clause linkage

Hammond, Jeremy

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Hammond, Jeremy
Syntax, Typology, and Information Structure, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL;

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Hammond, J. (2011). Whitesands echo subject in clause linkage. Talk presented at RRG 2011: International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar. Santiago, Chile. 2011-08-11 - 2011-08-13.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-148B-E

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In this paper, I investigate clause linkage in the Oceanic language Whitesands (ISO: TNP). Whitesands, like its sister languages of the southern Vanuatu sub-group, uses a switch reference-like system called the Echo Subject (ES) (see Lynch 2001:177 and Crowley 2002:201). I first present a general description of the system in its most canonical forms for Whitesands. I then attempt to harmonize the ES system into the RRG theoretical framework, focusing on the layered structure of the clause in complex sentences. Of particular interest is how both arguments and the selected operators are shared across the complex structures. I address the following questions: Does the ES system support RRG predictions (see Van Valin and LaPolla 1997:49 and Van Valin 2005:201-2) that operators further from the nucleus will be first shared in complex sentences? What type of complex clause arrangements can the ES be used in?