The Interrelations of Syntax, Narrative Structure, and Prosody in a Berber Language (Studies in Linguistics and Semiotics, V. 8) by Clive W. McClelland — OmList
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The Interrelations of Syntax, Narrative Structure, and Prosody in a Berber Language (Studies in Linguistics and Semiotics, V. 8)
Presents a method for empirical language analysis which examines links among narrative structure, syntax, and prosody. Explores three global phenomena in oral texts of the little-studied Tarifit Berber language of Morocco: its prosody, its clause structure, and its discourse pragmatics. Examines whether these three phenomena are correlated at all, and if so, which of the three are more closely aligned, and which factors within each of the gross phenomena are correlated with what factors in another phenomena. Textual material analyzed consists of four short oral narrative texts from four different storytellers of Morocco who are bilingual speakers of Tarifit and Moroccan Arabic. This is a reworked version of the author's 1996 dissertation submitted to the University of Texas-Arlington. Annotation c. Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
