Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic /

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The book contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. It investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aboh, Enoch Oladé, Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 191.
Temas:
Niger-Congo languages > Grammar.
Afroasiatic languages > Grammar.
Focus (Linguistics)
Perspective (Linguistics)
Langues nigéro-congolaises > Grammaire.
Langues chamito-sémitiques > Grammaire.
Focus (Linguistique)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > African Languages.
Afroasiatic languages > Grammar
Focus (taalkunde)
Afrikaanse talen.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Focus and Grammar: The Contribution of African Languages
  • Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann
  • Part I Focus and prosody
  • Nuclear stress in Eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo)
  • Victor Manfredi
  • Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho
  • Sabine Zerbian
  • Part II Information structure and word order
  • Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo
  • Tom Güldemann
  • Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu
  • Lutz Marten
  • Part III Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking
  • Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu
  • Florian Schwarz
  • Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages
  • Mara Frascarelli and Annarita Puglielli
  • Coptic relative tenses: The Profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device
  • Chris H. Reintges
  • Part IV The inventory of focus marking devices
  • Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali
  • Brigitte Reineke
  • Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A re-analysis of the particle nee/cee
  • Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann
  • Part V Focus and related constructions
  • Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa
  • Anne Schwarz and Ines Fiedler
  • Focused versus non-focused wh-Phrases
  • Enoch Oladé Aboh.

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