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Author Ewing, Michael C.

Title Grammar and inference in conversation : identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese / Michael C. Ewing
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Studies in discourse and grammar, 0928-8929 ; v. 18
Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 18. 0928-8929
Contents 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
Notes In English with examples in Javanese
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Subject Javanese language -- Dialects -- Indonesia -- Cirebon (Regency) -- Grammar
Javanese language -- Dialects -- Indonesia -- Cirebon (Regency) -- Clauses
Javanese language -- Dialects -- Indonesia -- Cirebon (Regency) -- Discourse analysis
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Miscellaneous.
Javanese language -- Dialects -- Grammar
Indonesia -- Cirebon (Regency)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789027293909
9027293902