The Iberian Challenge by Schwegler Armin;McWhorter John;Ströbel Liane;

Author:Schwegler, Armin;McWhorter, John;Ströbel, Liane;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert

Kon can also be used to exclusively mark discourse referentiality, which refers to bounded elements in discourse and their continued importance over a portion of text (Du Bois 1980). Different from “objective referential” arguments, a referential participant in discourse does not even have to be already exist, i.e. be “previously given in the message world” (Payne 1997: 266). In (16), mga tren ‘trains’ has not been mentioned before; the use of kon signals to the addressee that from now on, the argument will be topical in discourse5; in other words, kon here specifies the argument within the discourse stream. “Mga tren/Trains” in (18) remains semantically a class noun, but it is specified in discourse. On the other hand, when the argument is somehow marginal to the discourse topic, it is left unmarked for referentiality. In (19a), kon akel ‘those’ is a relativized topic, while in (19b), the speaker is interrupting the narration of events to clarify information about eli ‘she’, which is the topic of the sentence.6 In (19b), akel is not marked.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.