New PDF release: Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of

By Hartmann, Katharina, Enoch Olade Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann

ISBN-10: 3110195933

ISBN-13: 9783110195934

Over the past twenty years, concentration has develop into a sought after subject in significant fields in linguistic study (syntax, semantics, phonology). concentration innovations in? African Languages contributes to the continuing dialogue of concentration through investigating focus-related phenomena in various African languages, such a lot of that have been under-represented within the theoretical literature on concentration. The articles within the quantity examine concentration thoughts in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from numerous theoretical and methodological views, starting from specified generative research to cautious typological generalization throughout languages. Their universal goal is to deepen our figuring out of no matter if and the way the information-structural classification of concentration is represented and marked in traditional language. issues investigated are, between others, the relation of concentration and prosody, the consequences of knowledge constitution on observe order, ex situ as opposed to in situ concepts of concentration marking, the stock of concentration marking units, concentration and comparable buildings, focus-sensitive debris. the current inquiry into the focal point platforms of African languages has repercussions on present theories of concentration. It finds new concentration recommendations in addition to fine-tuned concentration differences that aren't mentioned within the theoretical literature, that is nearly completely in accordance with well-documented intonation languages.

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