TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Verhoeven, Elisabeth
T1  - Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya : on the Interplay of prosody and syntax
T2  - 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
N2  - 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.
KW  - cleft constructions
KW  - lexical tone
KW  - topic affixes
KW  - verb-initial language
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10032
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112218
UR  - http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1946/
SP  - 187
EP  - 208
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -