Prominence in Austronesian

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Prominence in Austronesian is written by Bethwyn Evans and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110730812 (ISBN 10) and 9783110730814 (ISBN 13).

The 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.