: Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann
: Focus Strategies in African Languages The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110199093
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.40
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: Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen
: English
: 330
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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-marking devices, and others. The volume enhances the understanding of focus-marking in natural language.


Enoch Oladé Aboh,Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Katharina HartmannandM lte Zimmermann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages7
Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo)21
Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho61
Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo89
Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu119
Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu145
Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages167
Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device191
Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali229
Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee247
Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa273
Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases293
Backmatter321