30.1470, Books: Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation: Bueno Holle

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Subject: 30.1470, Books: Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation: Bueno Holle

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Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:55:20
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation: Bueno Holle

 


Title: Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and
conversation 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/219 


Author: Juan José Bueno Holle

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961101290 Pages: 214 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

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:

1. 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;

2. 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; and

3. The close analysis of spontaneous speech in an endangered language
contributes to our theoretical understanding of information structure and
informs our knowledge of language documentation practices and revitalization
efforts.

Overall, the analysis presented here demonstrates the value and need for
information structure studies to document and analyze naturally-occurring
data.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Zapotec, Isthmus (zai)


Written In: English  (eng)

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