The Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa

Some languages make extensive use of clause-chaining. According to Payne (1997: 312), clause-chaining has been documented for languages in the highlands of New Guinea, Australia and the Americas. In Africa it is found in Ethiopia (Völlmin et al. 2007), in Kiswahili, a Bantu language (Hopper 1979: 2...

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Autor principal:	Helga Schröder
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Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 2020
Materias:	clause-chaining; foreground-background distinction; clause-chaining model; clause-skipping; discourse structuring Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:dff6eeca3a494f9ca490c3dda607033f2021-11-19T03:51:52ZThe Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa10.32473/sal.v49i1.1222630039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/dff6eeca3a494f9ca490c3dda607033f2020-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/122263https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428X Some languages make extensive use of clause-chaining. According to Payne (1997: 312), clause-chaining has been documented for languages in the highlands of New Guinea, Australia and the Americas. In Africa it is found in Ethiopia (Völlmin et al. 2007), in Kiswahili, a Bantu language (Hopper 1979: 213-215, Mungania 2018), in Anuak, a Western Nilotic language (Longacre 1990: 88-90 and 2007: 418) and in Toposa, a VSO language of South Sudan (Schröder 2011). Clause-chaining is characterized by a long combination of non-finite clauses that have operator dependency on a finite clause, and it usually signals foregrounded information in discourse (see also Dooley 2010: 3). Besides its discourse function, clause-chaining exhibits morpho-syntactic and semantic properties as demonstrated in this paper with examples from Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language. Helga SchröderLibraryPress@UFarticleclause-chaining;foreground-background distinction;clause-chaining model;clause-skipping;discourse structuringPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 49, Iss 1 (2020)
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spellingShingle	clause-chaining; foreground-background distinction; clause-chaining model; clause-skipping; discourse structuring Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Helga Schröder The Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa
description	Some languages make extensive use of clause-chaining. According to Payne (1997: 312), clause-chaining has been documented for languages in the highlands of New Guinea, Australia and the Americas. In Africa it is found in Ethiopia (Völlmin et al. 2007), in Kiswahili, a Bantu language (Hopper 1979: 213-215, Mungania 2018), in Anuak, a Western Nilotic language (Longacre 1990: 88-90 and 2007: 418) and in Toposa, a VSO language of South Sudan (Schröder 2011). Clause-chaining is characterized by a long combination of non-finite clauses that have operator dependency on a finite clause, and it usually signals foregrounded information in discourse (see also Dooley 2010: 3). Besides its discourse function, clause-chaining exhibits morpho-syntactic and semantic properties as demonstrated in this paper with examples from Toposa, an Eastern Nilotic language.
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The Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa

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