Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!
This paper investigates prosodic features of fronted constituents in the verb-initial Oceanic language Gela (spoken by about 16.000 people in Solomon Islands). Although Gela’s basic constituent order is verb-(object-)subject/predicate-subject, constituents can appear in front of the verbal predicate...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/211 |