TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fiedler,Ines
AU  - Schwarz,Anne
ED  - International Conference on Focus in African Languages
TI  - The expression of information structure: a documentation of its diversity across Africa 
T2  - Typological studies in language
SN  - 9789027206725 (hb : alk. paper)
AV  - PL8008 .I65 2005
U1  - 496 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Pub. Company
KW  - African languages
KW  - Grammar, Comparative
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Focus (Linguistics)
KW  - Typology (Linguistics)
KW  - Intonation (Phonetics)
N1  - 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
ER  -