Switch-reference antecedence and subordination in Whitesands (Oceanic)

Hammond, Jeremy

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Switch-reference antecedence and subordination in Whitesands (Oceanic)

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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. (2014). Switch-reference antecedence and subordination in Whitesands (Oceanic). In R., van Gijn, J., Hammond, D., Matić, S., van Putten, & A. V., Galucio (Eds.), Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences. (pp. 263-290). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

引用: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-4D1D-7

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Whitesands is an Oceanic language of the southern Vanuatu subgroup. Like the related languages of southern Vanuatu, Whitesands has developed a clause-linkage system which monitors referent continuity on new clauses – typically contrasting with the previous clause. In this chapter I address how the construction interacts with topic continuity in discourse. I outline the morphosyntactic form of this anaphoric co-reference device. From a functionalist perspective, I show how the system is used in natural discourse and discuss its restrictions with respect to relative and complement clauses. I conclude with a discussion on its interactions with theoretical notions of information structure – in particular the nature of presupposed versus asserted clauses, information back- and foregrounding and how these affect the use of the switch-reference system