%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
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