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Focus Strategies in African Languages : the Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic.
Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter,
2008.
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| Colección: | Trends in Linguistics: Studies & Monographs, v. 191.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical literature on focus. The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from several theoretical and methodological perspectives, ranging from detailed generative analysis to careful typological generaliz. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (332 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783110199093 3110199092 1282194666 9781282194663 |