TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Tonal focus reflections in Buli and some Gur relatives
T2  - Lingua
N2  - Buli is an Oti-Volta tone language spoken in Northern Ghana. This paper outlines the basic features of its tonal system and explores whether and in which way pitch respectively phonemic tone is approached as a means to indicate the pragmatic category of focus. Pursued are cases with focus-related surface tone changes as well as cases where pitch could help to disambiguate between broad and narrow foci. It is argued that focus is not consistently encoded by pitch or tone. Parallel findings for the closely related languages Kopen o (phonetic symbol)nni and Dagbani suggest that the apparent lack of significant prosodic focus signals in Buli might pertain to a larger group of tonal languages of the Gur family.
KW  - Informationsstruktur
KW  - Gur
KW  - Tone language
KW  - (Morpho)syntactic focus strategy
KW  - Focus marker
KW  - Broad focus
KW  - Focus ambiguity
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12560
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1134349
SN  - 0024-3841
N1  - © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
VL  - 119
IS  - 6
SP  - 950
EP  - 972
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam [u. a.]
ER  -