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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Contents; Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages; Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo); Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho; Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo; Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu; Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu; Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages; Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device; Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali.
- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/ceeNarrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa; Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases; Backmatter.