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Publication details [#7259]

Oomen, Antoinette. 1978. Focus in the Rendille clause. Studies in African Linguistics 9 (1) : 35–65.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject

Annotation

Focus structure in the Rendille clause is analyzed in Halliday's terminology. There are said to be two focus markers: the '+predicate focus marker' and the '- predicate focus marker'. (Rendille is a language spoken in Kenya).