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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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