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This paper examines the grammatical voice system of Indonesian and Surinamese Javanese speakers. Alongside Javanese, the Surinamese speakers also speak Sranantongo and Dutch. Studying the use of voice in both… Click to show full abstract
This paper examines the grammatical voice system of Indonesian and Surinamese Javanese speakers. Alongside Javanese, the Surinamese speakers also speak Sranantongo and Dutch. Studying the use of voice in both speaker groups shows that it depends both on givenness and animacy of arguments. This interacts with the speaker group. The Surinamese speakers were found to be less discourse-dependent, due to general language contact processes as well as convergence to Dutch and Sranantongo.
Keywords:
information structure;
voice;
structure surinamese;
voice information;
surinamese javanese
Journal Title: Linguistics in the Netherlands
Year Published: 2018
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Journal Title: Linguistics in the Netherlands
Year Published: 2018
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