Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Prominence in Austronesian: An introduction 1
4. The role of prominence in Katripul Puyuma: Voice and coding of arguments in two-place predicates 19
5. Prominence and the (non-)correspondence between topic and subject in Saisiyat 55
6. Information structure and syntactic choices in Kelabit 91
7. The role of prominence in post-verbal word order alternation in Javanese applicatives 129
8. The dynamic grammar and socio-pragmatics of prominence in Balinese 169
9. Discourse, prominence, and morphosyntax: Managing information structure in Tukang Besi 201
10. Accessibility and prominence in the Amarasi NP 229
11. Demonstratives as markers of pragmatic prominence in Paluai (Admiralties, Oceanic) 267
12. Animacy as a prominence-lending feature in Lakurumau morphosyntax and discourse 305
13. Index 329