Deixis, information structure and clause linkage in Yafi’ Arabic (Yemen)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20034178 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martine Vanhove (0000-0003-0174-352X, LLACAN, Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques – CNRS, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 333-354 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Clause linking and clause hierarchy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/slcs.121.10van |
| OpenAlex | W2486822576 |
| ISBN | 9789027205889 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Several particles in the Arabic variety spoken in the area of Yafi’ (Yemen) show tight recurring links between deixis, informational hierarchy, and syntactic hierarchy, both diachronically and synchronically. In the light of Robert’s (1993, 2000) findings on focusing strategies, these links are discussed in detail for two polyfunctional particles, raʕ , and ta , which can be used, among other things, as deictics, topic markers, focusing particles and clause-linking devices (see Vanhove 1996 & 2004). The present paper shows how, in a language where subordinating constructions and markers are also available, topicalisation and focusing strategies may become the preferred strategies for clause-linking, especially in causal, relative and complement clauses
Arabic · Deixis · Dependent clause · Hierarchy · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Political science · Chemistry · Computer Science · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |