The expression of information structure a documentation of its diversity across Africa.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins 2010Description: XII, 383 p. illContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 90-272-0672-4
  • 978-90-272-0672-5
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Contents:
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 Guldemann -- 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 Kroger -- Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber / Amina Mettouchi and Axel Fleisch -- Focus in Atlantic languages / Stephane 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.
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book Library of Linguistics 120.546 L Available 7607600-10

Papers presented at the International Conference on Focus in African Languages, held October 6-8, Berlin, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 Guldemann -- 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 Kroger -- Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber / Amina Mettouchi and Axel Fleisch -- Focus in Atlantic languages / Stephane 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.