Description
Summary: | This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their structure explicitly and redundantly, many other clauses include few if any of these grammatical resources. These extremes mark a cline between the morphosyntactic and paratactic expression of clauses. The situation is thrown into relief by the frequency of unexpressed referents and conversationalist.
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Item Description: | Originally presented: as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027293909 9027293902 |
ISSN: | 0928-8929 ; |
Language: | In English with examples in Javanese. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |