Discourse Features of Ten Languages of West-Central Africa

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Levinsohn, Stephen H., editor
Series Issue: 
119
Issue Date: 
1994
Publisher: 
Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington
Publisher Place: 
Dallas
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Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 119
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ix, 241 pages
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Published
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Preface Stephen H. Levinsohn

Section One: Cohesion and Discontinuities

  1. Discontinuities in Coherent Texts Stephen H. Levinsohn
  2. Cohesion and Discontinuities in N maand Expository Discourse Patricia L. Wilkendorf
  3. Preposed Constituents and Discontinuities in Makaa Discourse Daniel P. Heath and Teresa A. Heath

Section Two: Participant Reference Encoding

  1. Demonstrative Adjectives in Mofu-Gudur Folktales James N. Pohlig and Stephen H. Levinsohn
  2. Participant Reference in N maand Narrative Discourse Carolyn P. Taylor
  3. Field Procedures for the Analysis of Participant Reference in a Monologue Discourse Stephen H. Levinsohn

Section Three: Semantic Constraints on Relevance and Prominence Devices

  1. Semantic Constraints on Relevance in Lobala Discourse David Morgan
  2. Thematic Development and Prominence in Tyap Discourse Carl M Follingstad
  3. Prominence in Bafut: Syntactic and Pragmatic Devices Joseph Ngwa Mfonyam
  4. Further Thoughts on Four Discourse Particles in Mandara Annie Whaley Pohlig and James N. Pohlig
  5. Notes on Markers of Parallelism in Meta by Klaus W. Spreda
  6. Rheme and Focus in Mambila Mona J. Perrin
Country: 
Congo (Kinshasa)
Cameroon
Nigeria
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Entry Number: 
8779