Sentence Initial Devices, Volumes 75-76Joseph Evans Grimes |
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Introduction | 1 |
Constituent Order Cohesion and Staging in Gavião | 7 |
Focus and Topic in Xavante | 27 |
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action anaphoric anteater causal change of subject character chu'u chucuna clause subordinators clause topic conjunctions connector constituent content framework Coreguaje demonstrative dependent clause dependent restatements discourse embedded enclitic episode existential clause father fish following example fronted function Gavião given information global topic Grimes Guaraní ha'e rami hale hearer hierarchical I=topic ideophones independent verb indicate initial Institute of Linguistics interrogative intransitive introduced jaguar Joseph E language máh marked topic medial clauses monkey nahina Nambiquara narrative narrator nasalized nasalized vowels Nharinha Niha noun phrase object occurs ocelots paragraph topic paragraph-initial participant particles plural Porto Velho preceding predicate pro-verb pronoun pūrică question phrase question word rebana rebau reference referential connective repetition Rondônia rubber hunter rumu semantic sentence sentence-initial elements shco snake speaker story subj suffix Summer Institute tê dza temporal sequence Teribe topic span Toptö transitive verb unmarked verb phrase verb suffixes vowels Xavante