Case on the margins: pragmatics and argument marking in Vaeakau-Taumako and beyond

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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