@inproceedings{fd2bbaf010f5424ea866979f881dbb94,
title = "Pragmatic Structures in Aymara",
abstract = "The paper describes overt marking of information structure in the indigenous Andean language Aymara. In this paper we show that although the word order is free, Aymara is not a discourse-configurational language (Kiss, 1994); instead, information structure is expressed only morphologically by pragmatic suffixes. The marking of 'topic' is more flexible that the marking of 'focus' (be it at the clause level or NP-internal). Since overt marking of information structure is partial, this paper also devotes considerable attention to the resolution of underspecification in Aymara.",
keywords = "Aymara, Linguistics",
author = "Petr Homola and Matt Coler",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013 Charles University in Prague, Matfyzpress, Prague, Czech Republic; 2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics ; Conference date: 27-08-2013 Through 30-08-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
series = "DepLing 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics",
publisher = "MATFYZPRESS Publishing House of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University in Prague",
pages = "98--107",
editor = "Eva Hajicova and Kim Gerdes and Leo Wanner",
booktitle = "DepLing 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Dependency Linguistics",
}