Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment
Conlangery Podcast
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The Importance of Discourse Focus in Speech
In the Philippines, whether you use patient focus or agent focus has a really strong implication about the definiteness of your arguments. So choosing which to focus on is this all sort of discourse stuff? Absolutely. All of these things that we're talking about today are how you organize information for your listeners. What is salient, what is new?
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