Aboh / Hartmann / Zimmermann Focus Strategies in African Languages

The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019909-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 191, 330 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aboh, Enoch Oladé

Hartmann, Katharina

Zimmermann, Malte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Focus: The African way

Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, and 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 Focus 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 Focus and morphosyntax
Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali
Brigitte Reineke Focus or narrative construction?
Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu
Florian Schwarz Focused versus non-focused wh-Phrases
Enoch Oladé Aboh Coptic relative tenses: The Profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device
Chris Reintges Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages
Mara Frascarelli and Annarita Puglielli Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A re-analysis of the particle nee/cee
Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann

Über Autor(innen)

Enoch Oladé Aboh, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.