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https://doi.org/10.14943/106651

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/89072

A Study of ʂi in Bonan from the Perspective of Information Structure

日本語

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2023-03-20

Japan Association of Northern Language Studies

Northern Language Studies

13

77-99

The study aims to discuss the Chinese loanword ʂi in Bonan, one of the Mongolic languages spoken in the Gansu Province of China. In this study, I describe the syntactic characteristics and semantic function of ʂi in Bonan in terms of information structure. Then I describe the difference between the information structure of the sentences containing ʂi, and that of the sentences which have marked word order, which has been used to indicate marked information structure in Bonan. The main claims of this study are summarized in the following two points. The first is, in the sentences containing ʂi, the element before ʂi is the topic of the sentence, and the element after ʂi is the focus of the sentence. The second is, compared with the sentences which have marked word order, the topic of sentences containing ʂi can only take the nominative case (zero case). The topic in the sentences with marked word order can take all cases.

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2185-7121

AA12516968