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The expression of information structure : a documentation of its diversity across Africa / edited by Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Typological studies in language ; v. 91Publication details: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2010.Description: p. cmISBN:
  • 9789027206725 (hb : alk. paper)
  • 9789027288424 (eb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 496 22
LOC classification:
  • PL8008 .I65 2005
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.
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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.

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