14.1426, Books: Discourse/Syntax, Indonesian: Englebretson

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Subject: 14.1426, Books: Discourse/Syntax, Indonesian: Englebretson

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Date:  Fri, 16 May 2003 13:32:02 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Searching for Structure: Englebretson

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Date:  Fri, 16 May 2003 13:32:02 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Searching for Structure: Englebretson

Title: Searching for Structure
Subtitle: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian
	  conversation
Series Title: Studies in Discourse and Grammar 13

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiDaG_13

Author: Robert  Englebretson, Rice University

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113671, Pages: x, 206 pp., Price: USD 112.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027226237, Pages: x, 206 pp., Price: EUR 112.00

Abstract:

This book argues against the existence of complementation in
colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these
findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical
categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a
corpus of spontaneous conversational Indonesian data, the author
examines four construction types which express what is often encoded
by complements in other languages: juxtaposed clauses, material
introduced by the discourse marker bahwa, serial verbs, and epistemic
expressions with the suffix -nya. These four construction types offer
no evidence to support complementation as a viable grammatical
category in colloquial spoken Indonesian. Rather, they are best
understood as emergent, discourse-level phenomena, arising from the
interactive and communicative goals of language users. The lack of
evidence for complementation in colloquial Indonesian reaffirms the
need to understand linguistic structure as language-particular and
diverse, and emphasizes the centrality of studying linguistic
categories based on their actual occurrence in natural discourse.

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
1. Preliminaries  1
2. Juxtaposed clauses  37
3. Complementizers in context: An analysis of bahwa  93
4. Verbs in series  127
5. Epistemic -- nya constructions  153
6. Conclusion  187
References  193
Appendices  199
Name index  201
Subject index  203

Lingfield(s):   Discourse Analysis
		Syntax

Subject Language(s):  Indonesian (Language code: INZ)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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