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Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue! (2017)
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Simard, C., & Wegener, C. Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 2(1;51), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.211

This paper investigates prosodic features of fronted constituents in the verb-initial Oceanic language Gela (spoken by about 16.000 people in Solomon Islands). Although Gela’s basic constituent order is verb-(object-)subject/predicate-subject, consti... Read More about Fronted NPs in a verb-initial language – clause-internal or external? Prosodic cues to the rescue!.