2005
DOI: 10.1086/501248
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Integrating Syntax and Pragmatics: Word Order and Transitivity Variations in Tunumiisut

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“…Pragmatics and definiteness are the main factors which determine the choice of one or the other structure: in 7b the topic is niqiq 'the meat' and in 7c the topic is qimmiq 'the dog'. The change in word order corresponds to pragmatic variation, in particular due to focalization or to the message's explicitation by use of an 'anti-topic' (Tersis & Carter-Thomas 2005). However one must be aware that interpretation of the sentence's structural analysis, transitivity, word order and ergativity's true nature have been the matter of some debate among linguists over the last ten years, because of the parallelism between "transitive" sentences (7b) and possessive noun phrases (Mahieu 2009, Tersis 2004; this phenomenon can be explained from a historical perspective (cf.…”
Section: From Simple To Complex Sentencesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pragmatics and definiteness are the main factors which determine the choice of one or the other structure: in 7b the topic is niqiq 'the meat' and in 7c the topic is qimmiq 'the dog'. The change in word order corresponds to pragmatic variation, in particular due to focalization or to the message's explicitation by use of an 'anti-topic' (Tersis & Carter-Thomas 2005). However one must be aware that interpretation of the sentence's structural analysis, transitivity, word order and ergativity's true nature have been the matter of some debate among linguists over the last ten years, because of the parallelism between "transitive" sentences (7b) and possessive noun phrases (Mahieu 2009, Tersis 2004; this phenomenon can be explained from a historical perspective (cf.…”
Section: From Simple To Complex Sentencesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El orden de palabras en las interrogativas totales o absolutas del español es un tema que ha recibido poca atención, en comparación con la cantidad de estudios existentes para la declaración o para la interrogación parcial. Algunos estudios anteriores han demostrado que el fenómeno de determinación del orden de constituyentes es complejo y, que en él intervienen factores morfosintácticos, semánticos y pragmáticos, en diferente medida, según la estructura de las lenguas (Tersis & Carter-Thomas, 2005;Payne, 1992). A su vez, si bien se considera un reduccionismo analizar la influencia de estas condicionantes de manera aislada, pues no existe un comportamiento modular del fenómeno, sí es propicio desde el punto de vista metodológico analizarlas independientemente (Payne, 1992).…”
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