The expression of information structure :
The expression of information structure : a documentation of its diversity across Africa /
edited by Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz.
- Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.
- p. cm.
- Typological studies in language ; v. 91 .
Papers presented at the International Conference on Focus in African Languages, held October 6-8, Berlin, Germany.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789027206725 (hb : alk. paper) 9789027288424 (eb : alk. paper)
2009050676
PL8008 / .I65 2005
496
Papers presented at the International Conference on Focus in African Languages, held October 6-8, Berlin, Germany.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9789027206725 (hb : alk. paper) 9789027288424 (eb : alk. paper)
2009050676
PL8008 / .I65 2005
496