The Expression of Information Structure in Malayalam
Amanda Swenson, Athulya Aravind, Paul Marty
January 2015
 

This article surveys the ways in which the various interfaces interact to express information structure in Malayalam. It focuses on how syntactic notions such as clefts and focus markers like `mathram' and –`ee' V+`ulluu' interact with each other and with prosody to express focus in similar but different ways and how topic is encoded via syntactic processes such as scrambling and topic markers and via different prosodic patterns.
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Reference: lingbuzz/003774
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Published in: Swanimam
keywords: malayalam, topic, focus, prosody, syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology
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