Focus strategies in chadic : the case of tangale revisited

  • We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under consideration. Firstly, it is standardly assumed that focus is generally marked by stress. The Chadic languages, however, exhibit a variety of different devices for focus marking. Secondly, it is assumed that focus is always marked. In Tangale, at least, focus is not marked consistently on all types of constituents. The paper offers two possible solutions to this dilemma.

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Author:Katharina HartmannGND, Malte ZimmermannORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112306
URL:http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/842/
Parent Title (German):Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; Vol. 1
Publisher:Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:Potsdam
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Year of Completion:2007
Year of first Publication:2007
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/06
Tag:focus marking; focus movement; tone languages
Volume:61
Page Number:37
First Page:207
Last Page:243
Source:http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/842/ ; Studia Linguistica; 61 (2007) S. 95 - 129
HeBIS-PPN:207617759
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht

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