Most of the Scandinavian languages and dialects exhibit a tonal accent distinction. Invariably the lexical tone is associated to the primary stressed syllable...
Keywords: Scandinavian, tone accent, accent 2, typology, alignment
01/2006 | STUF Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagA systematic collection of problems and counterexamples is presented for predictions of patterns of relational marking on noun phrases in terms of a noun phrase hierarchy (also known as animacy hierarchy), as conceived of by Silverstein (1976) and others...
Keywords: accusative, agentivity, alignment, animacy, case, ergative, hierarchy, markedness, noun phrase hierarchy, person, personal pronoun
06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de GruyterThis paper aims to shed light on the question of how interactants use the concurrent organizations of assessments and three different gaze patterns as resources for stance taking in everyday conversation...
Keywords: stance taking, gaze, assessments, everyday interaction, alignment, intersubjectivity
05/2006 | Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, Walter de Gruyter