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Author Ewing, Michael C.

Title Grammar and inference in conversation : identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese / Michael C. Ewing.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in discourse and grammar, 0928-8929 ; v. 18
Studies in discourse and grammar ; v. 18. 0928-8929
Note Originally presented: as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and indexes.
Contents Grammar and Inference in Conversation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The morphology of predicates; The morphology of nominal expressions; Information flow; Constituents and constituent order; Clauses and interaction; Conclusion; Notes; References; Appendix; Author index; Subject index; The series Studies in Discourse and Grammar.
Summary This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their structure explicitly and redundantly, many other clauses include few if any of these grammatical resources. These extremes mark a cline between the morphosyntactic and paratactic expression of clauses. The situation is thrown into relief by the frequency of unexpressed referents and conversationalist.
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Language In English with examples in Javanese.
Subject Javanese language -- Dialects -- Indonesia -- Cirebon (Kabupaten) -- Grammar.
Javanese language -- Dialects.
Indonesia -- Cirebon (Regency)
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Javanese language.
Javanese language -- Dialects -- Indonesia -- Cirebon (Kabupaten) -- Clauses.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Clauses.
Javanese language -- Dialects -- Indonesia -- Cirebon (Kabupaten) -- Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Academic theses.
Academic theses.
Other Form: Print version: Ewing, Michael C. Grammar and inference in conversation. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2005 9027226288 9789027226280 (DLC) 2005050836 (OCoLC)61200756
ISBN 9789027293909 (electronic book)
9027293902 (electronic book)