UID:
edocfu_9958353595102883
Format:
1 online resource (330p.)
ISBN:
9783110199093
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 191
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Focus and grammar: The contribution of African --
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languages --
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Part I. Focus and prosody --
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Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa --
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(Niger-Congo) --
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Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern --
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Sotho --
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Part II. Information structure and word --
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order --
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Preverbal objects and information structure in --
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Benue-Congo --
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Focus strategies and the incremental development of --
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semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu --
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Part III. Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus --
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marking --
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Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu --
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Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information --
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structure in Cushitic languages --
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Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a --
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morpho-syntactic flagging device --
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Part IV. The inventory of focus marking --
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devices --
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Identificational operation as a focus strategy in --
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Byali --
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Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the --
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particle nee/cee --
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Part V. Focus and related constructions --
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Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa --
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Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-019593-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199093
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199093
