TY  - CHAP
A1  - Downing, Laura J.
T1  - The prosody and syntax of focus in Chitumbuka
T2  - Papers in Bantu grammar and description / editors: Laura J. Downing, Lutz Marten & Sabine Zerbian, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2006, : ZAS papers in linguistics ; Nr. 43
N2  - This paper presents a sketch of the prosodic, syntactic and morphological means of expressing focus in Chitumbuka, an underdescribed Bantu language of Malawi. The chief prosodic correlate of focus is boundary narrowing – rephrasing conditioned by focus – which is used not only to signal in situ focus but also in syntactic and morphological focus constructions. Of theoretical importance is the fact that rephrasing does not lend culminative prominence to the focused constituent. Although Chitumbuka has culminative sentential stress, its position remains fixed at the right edge of the clause, independent of the position of focus. This makes Chitumbuka a challenge for theories of focus prosody which claim that the focused constituent must have culminative sentential prominence.
KW  - Bantusprachen
KW  - Malawi
KW  - Prosodie
KW  - Syntax
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30949
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309497
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/189.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 43
SP  - 55
EP  - 79
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -