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Publication details [#46574]

Hartmann, Katharina, Enoch Oladé Aboh and Malte Zimmermann, eds. 2007. Focus Strategies in African Languages. The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 191). De Gruyter. VI+324 pp.

Publication type

Book – edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

focus | information structure | prosody | word order

Language as a subject

Languages, African

Annotation

This volume considers focus strategies in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from various theoretical and methodological viewpoints, in order to explain whether and how focus is represented and marked in natural language. New focus strategies as well as fine-tuned focus distinctions are revealed.