The article investigates the role of a group of cognate “ME”-particles in the complex focus systems of four Gur languages. On the basis of new data it is revealed that the particles have a presuppositional structure and mark narrow focus on the verb’s denotation or on verbal operators in varying degrees, depending on the language-specific interaction with other pragmatic particles and the aspectual system. The paper thus provides insights into the typology and dependency of verb-related foci, including truth-value focus, in less familiar languages.
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2023. Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 41:4 ► pp. 1349 ff.
Chiarcos, Christian, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic, Katharina Hartmann, Julia Ritz, Anne Schwarz, Amir Zeldes & Malte Zimmermann
2011. Information structure in African languages: corpora and tools. Language Resources and Evaluation 45:3 ► pp. 361 ff.
Caroline Féry & Shinichiro Ishihara
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Jordanoska, Izabela, Anna Kocher & Raúl Bendezú-Araujo
2023. Introduction special issue: marking the truth: a cross-linguistic approach to verum. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42:3 ► pp. 429 ff.
Matthewson, Lisa
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Miehe, Gudrun
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