Grammar and Inference in Conversation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The morphology of predicates; The morphology of nominal expressions; Information flow; Constituents and constituent order; Clauses and interaction; Conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix; Author index; Subject index; The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar
Summary
This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their structure explicitly and redundantly, many other clauses include few if any of these grammatical resources. These extremes mark a cline between the morphosyntactic and paratactic expression of clauses. The situation is thrown into relief by the frequency of unexpressed referents and conversationalist
Notes
Originally presented: as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and indexes