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8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even

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Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective
This chapter is in the book Information Structuring of Spoken Language from a Cross-linguistic Perspective
© 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

© 2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. I. Theoretical Approaches to IS
  5. 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages 7
  6. 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology 33
  7. 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese 55
  8. 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages 77
  9. II. IS and Spoken language
  10. 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance 95
  11. 6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque 121
  12. 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations 149
  13. 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even 167
  14. 9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese 191
  15. 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian 211
  16. III. IS and Discourse Particles
  17. 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages 239
  18. 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse 263
  19. IV. IS and Language Contacts
  20. 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam 285
  21. 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change 305
  22. Name index 327
  23. Language index 332
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110368758-009

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. I. Theoretical Approaches to IS
  5. 1. Detachment Linguistics and Information Grammar of Oral Languages 7
  6. 2. Reference and Cognitive Status: Scalar Inference and Typology 33
  7. 3. Saliency in discourse and sentence form: Zero anaphora and topicalization in Japanese 55
  8. 4. An Overview of Information Structure in three Amazonian Languages 77
  9. II. IS and Spoken language
  10. 5. Micro-variation in information structure: There sentences in Italo-Romance 95
  11. 6. How does adjacency arise? Grammatical conditions on focus-verb adjacency in Basque 121
  12. 7. Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations 149
  13. 8. Tag questions and focus markers: Evidence from the Tompo dialect of Even 167
  14. 9. Syntactic and Prosodic Marking of Contrastiveness in Spoken Chinese 191
  15. 10. Demonstratives and Information Structure in Spoken Estonian 211
  16. III. IS and Discourse Particles
  17. 11. Word order and focus particles in Nakh-Daghestanian languages 239
  18. 12. The discourse particle to and word ordering in Hindi: From grammar to discourse 263
  19. IV. IS and Language Contacts
  20. 13. Discourse Regulating Strategies in Pidgin Madam 285
  21. 14. New Information Structuring Processes and Morphosyntactic Change 305
  22. Name index 327
  23. Language index 332
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