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John Benjamins Pub. Company
Language
English

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Subjects
African languages, Focus (Linguistics), Comparative Grammar, Typology (Linguistics), Congresses, Intonation (Phonetics), Phonetics

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Table of 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 Güldemann
Focus marking in Aghem: syntax or semantics? / Larry M. Hyman
On the obligatoriness of focus marking: evidence from Tar Barma / Peggy Jacob
Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu / Roland Kiesling
Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives / Oliver Kröger
Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber / Amina Mettouchi and Axel Fleisch
Focus in Atlantic languages / Stéphane Robert
Topic and focus construction asymmetry / Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare
The expression of information structure 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.

Edition Notes

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Philadelphia
Series
Typological studies in language -- v. 91
Genre
Congresses

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496
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PL8008 .I65 2005, PL8008 .I65 2010, PL8008.I65 2005, PL8008

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p. cm.

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OL23980914M
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expressioninform00fied
ISBN 13
9789027206725, 9789027288424
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2009050676
OCLC/WorldCat
489001848

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