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Publication details [#30080]

Molnárfi, László. 2002. Focus and antifocus in modern Afrikaans and West Germanic. Linguistics 40 (6) : 1107–1160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anaphora | focus | function | stress

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | Germanic, Western

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper on focus assignment argues for the existence of a defocusing license in West Germanic that enables the destressing of anaphoric elements under a Spec-head configuration. Morphological evidence is based on modern spoken Afrikaans.