Focus strategies in African languages [[electronic resource] ] : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic / / edited by Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
Disciplina | 496/.36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AbohEnoch Oladé
HartmannKatharina ZimmermannMalte <1970-> |
Collana | Trends in linguistics studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Niger-Congo languages - Grammar
Afroasiatic languages - Grammar Focus (Linguistics) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-19466-6
9786612194665 3-11-019909-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages -- Part I. Focus and prosody -- Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) -- Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho -- Part II. Information structure and word order -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu -- Part III. Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages -- Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device -- Part IV. The inventory of focus marking devices -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee -- Part V. Focus and related constructions -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454066303321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focus strategies in African languages [[electronic resource] ] : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic / / edited by Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
Disciplina | 496/.36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AbohEnoch Oladé
HartmannKatharina ZimmermannMalte <1970-> |
Collana | Trends in linguistics studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Niger-Congo languages - Grammar
Afroasiatic languages - Grammar Focus (Linguistics) |
Soggetto non controllato |
African languages
pragmatics |
ISBN |
1-282-19466-6
9786612194665 3-11-019909-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages -- Part I. Focus and prosody -- Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) -- Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho -- Part II. Information structure and word order -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu -- Part III. Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages -- Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device -- Part IV. The inventory of focus marking devices -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee -- Part V. Focus and related constructions -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782778703321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic / / edited by Enoch Olade Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
Disciplina | 496/.36 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AbohEnoch Olade
HartmannKatharina ZimmermannMalte <1970-> |
Collana | Trends in linguistics studies and monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Niger-Congo languages - Grammar
Afroasiatic languages - Grammar Focus (Linguistics) |
ISBN |
1-282-19466-6
9786612194665 3-11-019909-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages -- Part I. Focus and prosody -- Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) -- Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho -- Part II. Information structure and word order -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu -- Part III. Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages -- Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device -- Part IV. The inventory of focus marking devices -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee -- Part V. Focus and related constructions -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807364703321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Information structure [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives / / edited by Malte Zimmerman and Caroline Fery |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ZimmermannMalte <1970->
FéryCaroline |
Collana | Oxford linguistics Information structure |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Psycholinguistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-38344-2
0-19-157191-1 9786612383441 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations and symbols; 1 Introduction; Part I: Topic and Focus; 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F; 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody; 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity; 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics; 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts; 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse; Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change; 8 Towards a typology of focus realization; 9 Focus in Aghem; 10 Subject focus in West African languages
11 Information structure and OV order12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic; Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches; 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order; 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution; 15 Given and new information in spatial statements; References; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465620403321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Information structure [[electronic resource] ] : theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives / / edited by Malte Zimmerman and Caroline Fery |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ZimmermannMalte <1970->
FéryCaroline |
Collana | Oxford linguistics Information structure |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Psycholinguistics |
ISBN |
0-19-161010-0
1-282-38344-2 0-19-157191-1 9786612383441 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations and symbols; 1 Introduction; Part I: Topic and Focus; 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F; 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody; 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity; 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics; 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts; 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse; Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change; 8 Towards a typology of focus realization; 9 Focus in Aghem; 10 Subject focus in West African languages
11 Information structure and OV order12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic; Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches; 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order; 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution; 15 Given and new information in spatial statements; References; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792226903321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Information structure : theoretical, typological, and experimental perspectives / / edited by Malte Zimmerman and Caroline Fery |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ZimmermannMalte <1970->
FeryCaroline |
Collana | Oxford linguistics Information structure |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Psycholinguistics |
ISBN |
0-19-161010-0
1-282-38344-2 0-19-157191-1 9786612383441 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Notes on contributors; Abbreviations and symbols; 1 Introduction; Part I: Topic and Focus; 2 Second occurrence focus and Relativized Stress F; 3 How focus and givenness shape prosody; 4 Structural focus and exhaustivity; 5 The interpretation of topical indefinites as direct and indirect aboutness topics; 6 Contrastive topics operate on speech acts; 7 Biased questions, intonation, and discourse; Part II: Cross-Linguistic Variation and Diachronic Change; 8 Towards a typology of focus realization; 9 Focus in Aghem; 10 Subject focus in West African languages
11 Information structure and OV order12 Information structure and unmarked word order in (Older) Germanic; Part III: Experimental and Psycholinguistic Approaches; 13 Effects of givenness and constraints on free word order; 14 Investigating effects of structural and information-structural factors on pronoun resolution; 15 Given and new information in spatial statements; References; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820932203321 |
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Questions in discourse . Volume 1 Semantics [[e-book] /] / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Interrogative
Interrogative (Grammar) Question (Logic) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 90-04-37830-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction / Klaus von Heusinger , Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea -- Questions in Discourse: an Overview / Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann -- Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English / Scott AnderBois -- The *whether Puzzle / Floris Roelofsen , Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni -- The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted / Mary Byram Washburn , Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta -- Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic / Lauren Winans -- Superlative Quantification Particles / Henk Zeevat -- Back Matter -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494723903321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Questions in discourse . Volume 1 Semantics [[e-book] /] / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Interrogative
Interrogative (Grammar) Question (Logic) |
ISBN | 90-04-37830-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction / Klaus von Heusinger , Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea -- Questions in Discourse: an Overview / Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann -- Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English / Scott AnderBois -- The *whether Puzzle / Floris Roelofsen , Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni -- The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted / Mary Byram Washburn , Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta -- Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic / Lauren Winans -- Superlative Quantification Particles / Henk Zeevat -- Back Matter -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795116803321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Questions in discourse . Volume 1 Semantics [[e-book] /] / edited by Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Interrogative
Interrogative (Grammar) Question (Logic) |
ISBN | 90-04-37830-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Introduction / Klaus von Heusinger , Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea -- Questions in Discourse: an Overview / Edgar Onea and Malte Zimmermann -- Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English / Scott AnderBois -- The *whether Puzzle / Floris Roelofsen , Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni -- The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted / Mary Byram Washburn , Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta -- Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic / Lauren Winans -- Superlative Quantification Particles / Henk Zeevat -- Back Matter -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816868103321 |
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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