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Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation

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This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations motivate the study: Strong documentation and a relatively large and active speaker community create a unique opportunity to document information structure in Isthmus Zapotec and to study the language as it is used by speakers in everyday life; As a tonal and verb-initial language, the examination of Isthmus Zapotec represents a chance to explore the possible combinations of tone, intonation, morphology and verb-initial syntax that may occur in the coding of information structure.

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Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface

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497.6882 BUE i

Publisher

Berlin, Germany : Language Science Press., 2019

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V, 1198 p.

Language

English

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9783961101290

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497.6882

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Structural linguistics

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