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Conference Paper: An analysis of topics in Prinmi: In a cross-linguistic perspective
Title | An analysis of topics in Prinmi: In a cross-linguistic perspective |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). |
Citation | The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS-23), Bangkok, Thailand, 29-31 May, 2013. In the Abstracts of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2013, p. 32 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Prinmi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of
southwest China. It demonstrates a high degree of topic prominence, as discussed in Li
and Thompson (1976). Topic prominence is a typological characteristic of Sino-Tibetan
languages, cf. Chao‘s (1968) analysis of spoken Chinese. It probably represents an areal
feature of South-East Asia, which, as a linguistic area, embraces mainland South-East
Asia and south China. Furthermore, topic prominence is also observed in such Sinospheric
languages as Japanese and Korean.
This paper presents an analysis of topics in Prinmi, based on first-hand data
collected for a large scale typological study of information structure. A variety of topics
are found in Prinmi in the study; Table 1 shows how they may be encoded. The topic-comment construction can be used to convey complex information,
such as:
(a) Chained comment construction:
Topic + Comment1 + Comment2 (+ … + Commentn)
(b) Contrastive topic-comment construction:
Topic1-Comment1 + Topic2-Comment2 (+ … + Topicn-Commentn)
(c) Recursive topic-comment:
Hanging TopicS + Comment
//
TopicS1-Comment1 (+ … + TopicSn-CommentSn)
I will discuss the function of the variety of topics in Prinmi. Their encoding as well as the
syntactic structure of topic-comment construction will be investigated in detail. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/188207 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Ding, PS | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-21T07:45:33Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-21T07:45:33Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS-23), Bangkok, Thailand, 29-31 May, 2013. In the Abstracts of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2013, p. 32 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/188207 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Prinmi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of southwest China. It demonstrates a high degree of topic prominence, as discussed in Li and Thompson (1976). Topic prominence is a typological characteristic of Sino-Tibetan languages, cf. Chao‘s (1968) analysis of spoken Chinese. It probably represents an areal feature of South-East Asia, which, as a linguistic area, embraces mainland South-East Asia and south China. Furthermore, topic prominence is also observed in such Sinospheric languages as Japanese and Korean. This paper presents an analysis of topics in Prinmi, based on first-hand data collected for a large scale typological study of information structure. A variety of topics are found in Prinmi in the study; Table 1 shows how they may be encoded. The topic-comment construction can be used to convey complex information, such as: (a) Chained comment construction: Topic + Comment1 + Comment2 (+ … + Commentn) (b) Contrastive topic-comment construction: Topic1-Comment1 + Topic2-Comment2 (+ … + Topicn-Commentn) (c) Recursive topic-comment: Hanging TopicS + Comment // TopicS1-Comment1 (+ … + TopicSn-CommentSn) I will discuss the function of the variety of topics in Prinmi. Their encoding as well as the syntactic structure of topic-comment construction will be investigated in detail. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS). | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, SEALS-23 | en_US |
dc.title | An analysis of topics in Prinmi: In a cross-linguistic perspective | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Ding, PS: picus@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Ding, PS=rp01205 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 219045 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 32 | - |