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Definiteness in Amwi : grammaticalization and syntax

Anne Daladier
p. 61-78

Abstracts

Amwi, a non-inflecting Mon-Khmer language, has a 'syntactic stress' mechanism which may apply to a subject or to one or several objects. Different morphological forms of determination construct with this mechanism in order to produce definiteness values : a) third person clitic pronouns used again as clitic-determiners, b) clitic-determiners associated with indefinite pronouns or ordinal-classifiers, c) aspectual elements associated with 'verbal'uses and aspectual deictics of time nouns. A syntactically stressed lexical subject or object is obligatorily definite. Definiteness values involve the syntax of the entire sentence in different ways.

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Bibliographical reference

Anne Daladier, “Definiteness in Amwi : grammaticalization and syntax”Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 31 | 2002, 61-78.

Electronic reference

Anne Daladier, “Definiteness in Amwi : grammaticalization and syntax”Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes [Online], 31 | 2002, Online since 06 June 2005, connection on 18 March 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rlv/378; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rlv.378

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