TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - The particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., S. Jannedy, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 8
N2  - The paper investigates focus marking devices in the scarcely documented North-Ghanaian Gur language Konkomba. The two particles lé and lá occur under specific focus conditions and are therefore regarded as focus markers in the sparse literature. Comparing the distribution and obligatoriness of both alleged focus markers however, I show that one of the particles, lé, is better analyzed as a connective particle, i.e. as a syntactic rather than as a genuine pragmatic marker, and that comparable syntactic focus marking strategies for sentence-initial constituents are also known from related languages.
KW  - morphological focus marking
KW  - syntactic focus marking
KW  - conjunction
KW  - topic-comment
KW  - Konkomba
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10073
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112621
UR  - ttp://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis08_5schwarz.pdf
SP  - 115
EP  - 139
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -