Abstract It has been claimed that Ngkolmpu (Yam, Papuan) displays discontinuous noun phrases (Donohue 2011). However, careful textual analysis of a corpus of naturalistic language reveals that, in practice, this is highly restricted. The data shows two relatively rare constructions which give rise to limited discontinuous structures. The first is an afterthought construction involving a full co-referential nominal constituent adjacent to the clause. This co-referential constituent is both syntactically and phonetically distinct from the main utterance. The other involves a topic marking demonstrative encliticised to verbs at the right edge of the clause interacting with general information-structural conditions on word order. This is the only true discontinuity found in the corpus and is restricted to demonstratives only. This paper clarifies a claim in the literature about the empirical facts of a specific language, Ngkolmpu, and adds a nuanced discussion of nominal discontinuity in a language of New Guinea.

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Ngkolmpu 中的不连续名词短语

摘要 有人声称 Ngkolmpu (Yam, Papuan) 显示不连续的名词短语 (Donohue 2011)。然而，对自然语言语料库的仔细文本分析表明，在实践中，这是高度受限的。数据显示了两种相对罕见的结构，它们产生了有限的不连续结构。第一个是事后结构，涉及与子句相邻的完整共指名义成分。这个共同指称的成分在句法和语音上都与主要话语不同。另一个涉及在从句的右边缘与动词的一般信息结构条件相互作用的动词的指示性主题标记。这是在语料库中发现的唯一真正的不连续性，并且仅限于指示语。