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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2018

SOV, prosody and information structuring in Beja

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Beja (North-Cushitic, Afro-Asiatic) has an (S)OV basic word order, and has hardly any focusing or topicalizing segmental devices. Consequently, prosody plays a major role in information structuring, in particular to distinguish topicality vs syntactic functions of nominals. This presentation will be based on a 3-hour corpus fully annotated and segmented into intonation units, and will be twofold. (i) It will first deal with VO and VS word orders where S and O may function as antitopic or as focus, depending on prosodic cues, namely melodic contours and presence or absence of a unit boundary and/or a pause. (ii) In the second part I will look at the prosodic cues in SOV linear order that help distinguish between syntax and pramatics, in particular topicalization of S and O vs syntactic subject and object.

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halshs-04004205 , version 1 (05-03-2023)

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Martine Vanhove. SOV, prosody and information structuring in Beja. Workshop OV basic word order correlates and information structure, SeDyL (UMR8202) - MII (FRE2018) - Labex EFL – Inalco, Dec 2018, Paris, France. ⟨halshs-04004205⟩
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