Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya : on the Interplay of prosody and syntax

  • The aim of this paper is to outline the means for encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya. Yucatec Maya is a tone language, displaying a three-fold opposition in the tonal realization of syllables. From the morpho-syntactic point of view, the grammar of Yucatec Maya contains morphological (topic affixes, morphological marking of out-of-focus predicates) and syntactic (designated positions) means to uniquely specify syntactic constructions for their information structure. After a descriptive overview of these phenomena, we present experimental evidence which reveals the impact of the nonavailability of prosodic alternatives on the choice of syntactic constructions in language production.

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Author:Frank Kügler, Stavros Skopeteas, Elisabeth Verhoeven
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112218
URL:http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1946/
Parent Title (German):Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., S. Jannedy, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 8
Publisher:Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:Potsdam
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/11/06
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:cleft constructions; lexical tone; topic affixes; verb-initial language
Page Number:22
First Page:187
Last Page:208
Source:In: Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 8, 2007 ; http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1946/
HeBIS-PPN:207613664
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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