TY  - CHAP
A1  - Downing, Laura J.
T1  - Wh-Questions in Chewa and Tumbuka : Positions and Prosodies
T2  - Questions in Bantu languages : prosodies and positions; [papers ... at the Workshop on Bantu Wh-questions, held at the Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, Univ.; Lyon 2, on 25 - 26 March 2011 ...] / Laura J. Downing (ed.), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin;  ZASPil  Vol. 55, S. 23-46
N2  - This paper presents a preliminary survey of the positions and prosodies associated with Wh-questions in two Bantu languages spoken in Malawi. The paper shows that the two languages are similar in requiring focused subjects to be clefted. Both also require 'which' questions and 'because of what' questions to be clefted or fronted. However, for other non-subjects Tumbuka rather uniformly imposes an IAV (immediately after the verb) requirement, while Chewa does not. In both languages, we found a strong tendency for there to be a prosodic phrase break following the Wh-word. In Tumbuka, this break follows from the general phrasing algorithm of the language, while in Chewa, I propose that the break can be best understood as following from the inherent prominence of Wh-words.
KW  - Interrogativsatz
KW  - Prosodie
KW  - Intonation <Linguistik>
KW  - Chewa-Sprache
KW  - Tumbuka-Sprache
Y1  - 2011
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31059
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310598
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil540.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 55
SP  - 23
EP  - 46
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -