Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz
  • Information structure marking in Sandawe texts / Helen Eaton
  • Topic and focus fields in Naki / Jeff Good
  • The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family / Tom Güldemann
  • Focus marking in Aghem: syntax or semantics? / Larry M. Hyman
  • On the obligatoriness of focus marking: evidence from Tar B'arma / Peggy Jacob
  • Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu / Roland Kiessling
  • Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives / Oliver Kröger
  • Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber / Amina Mettouchi and Axel Fleisch
  • Focus in Atlantic languages / Stéphane Robert
  • Topic and focus construction asymmetry / Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare
  • Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur / Anne Schwarz
  • Why contrast matters: information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic) / Mauro Tosco
  • Focus and the Ejagham verb system / John R. Watters.