How to not lose the track : Tail-Head Linkage as a mechanism for maintaining cohesion of spatial information in Dâw narratives
(2021) In Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas. 16(3).- Abstract
- References to landscape and places are central in traditional narratives by speakers of Dâw (Naduhup, Brazilian Amazon). This emphasis on spatial reference is primarily established through locative adverbial clauses that are often repeated throughout the discourse. Their function is to relate an event to a place, establish reference to locative information mentioned earlier in discourse, and provide cohesion when pre-posed to the main clause. In this syntactic position, they act as bridges connecting sentences and paragraphs by referring to antecedent context. Locative adverbial clauses in clause-initial position are interesting in Dâw because they can occur as exact replicas of a locative adverbial clause that was postposed to the main... (More)
- References to landscape and places are central in traditional narratives by speakers of Dâw (Naduhup, Brazilian Amazon). This emphasis on spatial reference is primarily established through locative adverbial clauses that are often repeated throughout the discourse. Their function is to relate an event to a place, establish reference to locative information mentioned earlier in discourse, and provide cohesion when pre-posed to the main clause. In this syntactic position, they act as bridges connecting sentences and paragraphs by referring to antecedent context. Locative adverbial clauses in clause-initial position are interesting in Dâw because they can occur as exact replicas of a locative adverbial clause that was postposed to the main clause of the antecedent sentence. This strategy has been described in the literature as tail-head linkage. Its central function is to maintain coherence among participants and events along subsequent sentences in discourse and to ensure that the interlocutor is able to track the numerous locations mentioned in the narrative. This paper explores the functional and formal properties of tail-head linkage by focusing on locative adverbial clauses in Dâw, and contributes to the understanding of how processes of subordination can be responsible for tracking spatial information in the discourse of Dâw speakers. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Abstract in Portuguese:
Referências a paisagens e lugares são elementos centrais nas narrativas tradicionais de falantes da língua Dâw (Naduhup,
Amazônia brasileira). Essa ênfase na referência espacial é estabelecida principalmente por meio de orações adverbiais
locativas que são frequentemente repetidas ao longo do discurso. Sua função é relacionar um evento a um lugar, estabelecer
referência à informação locativa mencionada anteriormente no discurso e fornecer coesão quando pré-posta à oração
principal. Nessa posição sintática, eles funcionam como pontes conectando sentenças e parágrafos referindo-se ao contexto
antecedente. Orações adverbiais locativas na posição inicial da cláusula são interessantes em Dâw... (More) - Abstract in Portuguese:
Referências a paisagens e lugares são elementos centrais nas narrativas tradicionais de falantes da língua Dâw (Naduhup,
Amazônia brasileira). Essa ênfase na referência espacial é estabelecida principalmente por meio de orações adverbiais
locativas que são frequentemente repetidas ao longo do discurso. Sua função é relacionar um evento a um lugar, estabelecer
referência à informação locativa mencionada anteriormente no discurso e fornecer coesão quando pré-posta à oração
principal. Nessa posição sintática, eles funcionam como pontes conectando sentenças e parágrafos referindo-se ao contexto
antecedente. Orações adverbiais locativas na posição inicial da cláusula são interessantes em Dâw porque podem ocorrer
como réplicas exatas de uma cláusula adverbial locativa que foi posposta à cláusula principal da sentença antecedente.
Essa estratégia tem sido descrita na literatura como tail-head linkage. Sua função central é manter a coerência entre os
participantes e eventos ao longo das frases subsequentes do discurso e garantir que o interlocutor consiga rastrear os
vários locais mencionados ao longo da narrativa. Este artigo explora as propriedades funcionais e formais de estruturas
tail-head linkage com ênfase nas orações adverbiais locativas em Dâw, contribuindo, assim, para o entendimento de como
os processos de subordinação podem ser responsáveis para rastrear informações espaciais no discurso na língua Dâw. (Less)
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- author
- Obert, Karolin LU
- alternative title
- Como não perder o caminho (Portuguese title) : Tail-head linkage como mecanismo de manter coesão de informação espacial em narrativas Dâw (Portuguese subtitle)
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- 2021
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- Naduhup family, Locative adverbial clauses, Subordination, Tail-head linkage, Space, Discourse, Família linguística Naduhup, Cláusulas adverbiais locativas, Subordinação, Tail-head linkage, Espaço, Discurso
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- Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas.
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 3
- article number
- e20200100
- pages
- 24 pages
- publisher
- Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
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- scopus:85122009713
- ISSN
- 1981-8122
- DOI
- 10.1590/2178-2547-BGOELDI-2020-0100
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- Multiple languages
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- Bilingual article in English and Portuguese
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