Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives

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Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Functional approach to the study of language 2. Data base 3. Outline Notes Chapter 2: Methodology 1. Thematicity and topicality 2. Topicality and the quantitative method 3. Limitations to the quantitative method Chapter 3: Chamorro morphology and syntax 1. Phonology 1.1. Phonemic inventory 1.2. Stress rule 1.3. I-umlaut 2. Morphology 2.1. The make-up of the noun phrase 2.2. Verb phrase morphology 2.3. Word order Notes Chapter 4: The role of topicality in a general comparison of the coding devices of transitive propositions 1. Preliminaries 2. Quantitative results and graphs 3. Discussion 3.1. The transitive construction 3.2. The antipassive construction 3.3. The passive construction 4. Preliminary conclusions Notes Chapter 5: Functional analysis of passives in Chamorro 1. Counterexamples to the general function of the Chamorro passive 2. MA-passives as distinct from IN-passives 3. Topicality and obligatory passives 3.1. Number 3.2. Animacy 3.3. Pronouns and the hierarchy of topicality 4. Passives, topicality, and agentivity 4.1. Topic-shift 4.2. Second person Objects 4.3. Complement constructions 4.4. Direct quote discourse in narratives Notes Chapter 6: A functional look at the antipassive 1. Preliminaries 2. The indefinite antipassive 3. The demoting antipassive 3.1. Affectedness of the object 3.2. Identity of the Agent 3.3. A pragmatic functional correlate for the demoting antipassive 4. Aspect 5. General function of the antipassive Notes Chapter 7: Complex sentence constructions 1. The ergative infix -UM- 1.1. Complement clauses 1.2. Distribution of -UM- in other complex clauses 1.3. General characteristics of the ergative -UM- construction 2. Nominalizations Notes Chapter 8: Discoure organization and paragraph thematicity 1. Thematicity and subject coding 1.1. Thematicity and the general rule of topicality 1.2. Thematicity and the rule of topic-shift 1.3. Conclusions 2. Thematicity and subject inversion Notes Chapter 9: Conclusions Appendix A: Sample story Appendix B: List of Abbreviations References Index