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020 _a90-272-0672-4
_chardback
020 _a978-90-272-0672-5
_chardback
035 _a(BeLVLBS)007607600LBS01-Aleph
035 _aLOC-2009050676
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn489001848
035 _a(EXLNZ-32KUL_LIBIS_NETWORK)9976076000101471
040 _aBeLVLBS
_bLanguage of cataloging varies
_erda based
245 0 4 _aThe expression of information structure
_ba documentation of its diversity across Africa.
264 1 _aAmsterdam
_bBenjamins
_c2010
300 _aXII, 383 p.
_bill.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aTypological studies in language
_v91
500 _aPapers presented at the International Conference on Focus in African Languages, held October 6-8, Berlin, Germany.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _aIntroduction / 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.
650 0 _aAfrican languages
_xGrammar, Comparative
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aFocus (Linguistics)
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aIntonation (Phonetics)
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aTypology (Linguistics)
_vCongresses.
700 1 _aFiedler, Ines.
_eeditor
700 1 _aSchwarz, Anne.
_eeditor
902 _mPHYSICAL
942 _cBOOK
997 _aZ39
_bLOC
999 _c267793
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