%0 Journal Article
%A Güldemann, Tom
%A Pratchett, Lee J.
%A Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena
%+ Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T From pragmatics to sentence type: Non-topical S/A arguments and clause-second particles in the Kalahari Basin : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-7ADB-A
%R 10.11435/gengo.154.0_53
%F OTHER: shh2233
%7 2018-07-25
%D 2019
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Languages of the Kalahari Basin contact area share a feature whereby<br>a special type of particle occurs in clause-second position, often after the S/A<br>constituent. Previous accounts have used a wide range of labels such as declarative,<br>indicative, emphatic nominative, or topic, which point to a diverse but<br>insufficiently understood functional array of this particle type. We address the<br>phenomenon from a discourse-oriented and comparative perspective by exploring<br>relevant cases in languages of three different families: Northern Khoekhoe<br>of Khoe-Kwadi, Nǁng of Tuu, and Ju of Kxʼa. We conclude that the particles are<br>involved in a network of constructions spanning such diverse domains as nonverbal<br>predication, focus, entity-central theticity, declarative, and possibly even<br>differential S/A marking. The last two functions that relate to sentence types and<br>grammatical relations, respectively, and (may) no longer display a marked information<br>structure (IS) configuration, emerge from the overuse of thetic particle<br>constructions and thus are the result of so-called “depragmaticization”.
%J Gengo Kenkyu
%O 言語研究
%V 154
%& 53
%P 53 - 84
%I The Linguistic Society of Japan
%@ 0024-39142185-6710