TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Verhoeven, Elisabeth
T1  - Encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya
BT  - on the interplay of prosody and syntax
N2  - The aim of this paper is to outline the means for encoding information structure in Yucatec Maya. Yucatec Maya is a tone language, displaying a three-fold opposition in the tonal realization of syllables. From the morpho-syntactic point of view, the grammar of Yucatec Maya contains morphological (topic affixes, morphological marking of out-of-focus predicates) and syntactic (designated positions) means to uniquely specify syntactic constructions for their information structure. After a descriptive overview of these phenomena, we present experimental evidence which reveals the impact of the nonavailability of prosodic alternatives on the choice of syntactic constructions in language production.
KW  - cleft constructions
KW  - lexical tone
KW  - topic affixes
KW  - verb-initial cleft constructions
KW  - verb-initial
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19469
ER  -