- Title
- Case on the margins: pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond
- Creator
- Næss, Åshild
- Relation
- Case, animacy and semantic roles p. 305-328
- Relation
- Typological Studies in Language 99
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tsl.99.11nae
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This paper examines the argument-marking system in the Polynesian language Vaeakau-Taumako, which has pragmatically related functions similar to those found e.g. in so-called Differential Object Marking systems, but which does not refer to syntactic relations or semantic roles, the functions normally attributed to case-marking systems. It asks exactly which functions should be taken to define a case-marking system as opposed to a system marking pragmatic functions such as topic-focus-structure, and suggests a distinction between two grammatically relevant types of pragmatic salience: referent-determined salience, which is often relevant to case marking, and speaker-determined salience, which is typically encoded in purely pragmatic marking systems. On this account, referent-determined salience emerges as the property that links case-marking and pragmatic marking systems.
- Subject
- language; Solomon Islands; Vaeakau-Taumako; pragmatics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057708
- Identifier
- uon:16242
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789027284815
- Language
- eng
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