Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9783110199093
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 191
Content:
Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical literature on focus. The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from several theoretical and methodological perspectives, ranging from detailed generative analysis to careful typological generaliz
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.
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110195933
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Focus strategies in African languages Berlin [u.a.] : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 9783110195934
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110195933
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Niger-Kongo-Sprachen
;
Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
;
Grammatik
;
Hamitosemitische Sprachen
;
Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
;
Grammatik
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199093
URL:
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Author information:
Aboh, Enoch Oladé 1962-
