Peggy Jacob

List of John Benjamins publications for which Peggy Jacob plays a role.

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Jacob, Peggy 2010 On the obligatoriness of focus marking: Evidence from Tar B’arma The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa, Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), pp. 117–144 | Article
Based on new evidence, the paper describes the different strategies that are used to mark focus in Tar B’arma, a Nilo-Saharan language. The paper also addresses the question which factors determine the preference for one or another means to express focus. It explores conditions like the type of the… read more