{"product_id":"9783110735413","title":"Prominence in Austronesian (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT])","description":"The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics. \u003cp\u003eThe cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in languages from across the Austronesian family. The contributions show how prominence is relevant to understanding asymmetries at different levels of grammatical structure, from discourse and information structure to argument expression and socio-pragmatics. Moreover, common themes across contributions point to crosslinguistic tendencies that underpin the conventionalisation of communicative patterns for coordinating interlocutors' attention, and to points of departure for further crosslinguistic exploration of how grammatical asymmetries can be explained in terms of prominence. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBethwyn Evans\u003c\/strong\u003e, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; \u003cstrong\u003eÅshild Næss\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eJozina Vander Klok\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Oslo, Norway.","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48257209139435,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":226.67,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783110735413-1.jpg?v=1782098118","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783110735413","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}