OLAC Record oai:gial.edu:29245

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Title:		Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic
Contributor:		Aboh, Enoch Oladé
		Hartmann, Katharina
		Zimmermann, Malte, 1970-
Date (W3CDTF):		2007
Description:		Includes bibliographical references and index
Extent:		vi, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Identifier:		ISBN: 9783110195934 (alk. paper)
Is Part Of:		Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 191
Language:		English
		Niger-Kordofanian languages
		Afro-Asiatic languages
		Multiple languages
Language (ISO639):		eng
		nic
		afa
		mul
Publisher:		Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter
Subject:		PL8026.N44F63 2007
		496/.36
		496/.3
Subject (LCSH):		Niger-Congo languages--Grammar
		Afroasiatic languages--Grammar
		Focus (Linguistics)
Subject (OLAC):		discourse_analysis
Table Of Contents:		Focus and grammar: the contribution of African languages / Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann -- Nuclear stress in Eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) / Victor Manfredi -- Investigating prosodic fucus marking in Northern Sotho / Sabine Zerbian -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo / Tom Güldermann -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: evidence from Bantu / Lutz Marten -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu / Florian Schwartz -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: information structure in Cushitic languages / Mara Frascarelli and Annarita Puglielli -- Coptic relative tenses: the profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device / Chris H. Reintges -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali / Brigitte Reineke -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: a reanalysis of the particle nee/cee / Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa / Anne Schwarz and Ines Fiedler -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases / Enoch Oladé Aboh
Type (DCMI):		Text
Type (OLAC):		language_description
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:gial.edu:29245
DateStamp:		2009-05-27
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Citation:		Aboh, Enoch Oladé; Hartmann, Katharina; Zimmermann, Malte, 1970-. 2007. Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 191.
Terms:		area_Europe country_GB dcmi_Text iso639_afa iso639_eng iso639_mul iso639_nic olac_discourse_analysis olac_language_description