Pragmatic Structures in Aymara
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چکیده
The paper describes overt marking of information structure in the indigenous Andean language Aymara. In this paper we show that although the word order is free, Aymara is not a discourse-configurational language (Kiss, 1994); instead, information structure is expressed only morphologically by pragmatic suffixes. The marking of ‘topic’ is more flexible that the marking of ‘focus’ (be it at the clause level or NP-internal). Since overt marking of information structure is partial, this paper also devotes considerable attention to the resolution of underspecification in Aymara.
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