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Browsing by Subject "Austronesian languages"

Browsing by Subject "Austronesian languages"

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  • Exclusives, equatives and prosodic phrases in Samoan 
    Calhoun, Sasha (Ubiquity Press, 2017-02-23)
    This paper investigates the functions of prosodic phrasing in the Austronesian VSO language Samoan. Two types of sentences are investigated, exclusives (involving the particle 'na’o' ‘only’) and equatives. Two complementary ...
  • The Interaction of prosody and syntax in Samoan focus marking 
    Calhoun, Sasha (Elsevier Ltd, 2015)
    This paper presents the first study of prosodic and syntactic focus making in Samoa, an Austronesian VSO language. It is shown that while Samoan appears to use syntax to mark focus, focus making in Samoa actually fits well ...

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