Prominence in Austronesian

The cognitive concept of prominence is increasingly seen as key to understanding the organisation of grammar. This volume explores the encoding of prominence in languages with different typological profiles from across the Austronesian family. The individual studies demonstrate the range of ways in which prominence is relevant to understanding grammatical asymmetries at different levels of grammatical structure, from discourse and information structure to argument expression and alternation and socio-pragmatics. At the same time, similarities and common themes across contributions point to cross-linguistic tendencies that underpin the conventionalisation of communicative patterns for coordinating interlocutors' attention, and to points of departure for further cross-linguistic exploration of how grammatical asymmetries can be explained through the lens of prominence.