Thematicity in Lushootseed syntax

• Autores: David Beck
• Localización: Proceedings [of the] Fourth International Conference on Meaning-Text Theory [Recurso electrónico] / David Beck (ed. lit.), Kim Gerdes (ed. lit.), Jasmina Milicevic (ed. lit.), Alain Polguère (ed. lit.), 2009, ISBN 978-2-9811149-0-7, págs. 55-64
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The surface form of sentences in Lushootseed is governed primarily by considerations of Communicative Structure, in particular Thematicity. This paper will argue that Thematicity, rather than part of speech, governs the selection of the syntactic predicate in Lushootseed, and will offer some preliminary formal treatments of the phenomenon in terms of ranked constraints governing the transition between SemR and DSyntR. It will also be shown that the typological distinction between Lushootseed and more familiar languages like English can be accounted for by variable rankings of a shared set of constraints on this transition.