Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation

This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment of information structure in a Mesoamerican language. Three main observations m...

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Main Author: Bueno Holle, Juan José
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Language Science Press 2019
Series:Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
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