Topic Continuity and OVS Order in Hixkaryana

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Derbyshire, Desmond C
Issue Date: 
1986
Extent: 
pages 237-306
Description: 
A description of how third person narrative discourse in Hixkaryana is organized in terms of the use of specific grammatical devices to signal the pragmatic status of participants. These grammatical devices signal the topicality of participants and correlate closely with semantic phenomena to divide up the discourse into distinct units. This analysis is based on three origin myth texts, one of which is presented in interlinear format as an appendix.
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Published
Country: 
Brazil
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Is Part Of: 
Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban, eds., Native South American Discourse. Berlin; New York; Amsterdam:Mouton de Gruyter. 0899250602
Entry Number: 
3784