Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic / edited by Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann.

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Machine derived contents note: Table of contents -- Focus and Grammar: The Contribution of African Languages -- Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann -- Part I Focus and prosody -- Nuclear stress in Eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) -- Victor Manfredi -- Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho -- Sabine Zerbian -- Part II Information structure and word order -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo -- Tom Güldemann -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu -- Lutz Marten -- Part III Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu -- Florian Schwarz -- 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 -- Part IV The inventory of focus marking devices -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali -- Brigitte Reineke -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A re-analysis of the particle nee/cee -- Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann -- Part V Focus and related constructions -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa -- Anne Schwarz and Ines Fiedler -- Focused versus non-focused wh-Phrases -- Enoch Oladé Aboh.

The book contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. It investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus-marking devices, and others. The volume enhances the understanding of focus-marking in natural language.

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