The particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba
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.
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| Author: | Anne Schwarz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112621 |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 10.11.2008 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Tag: | Konkomba; conjunction ; morphological focus marking ; syntactic focus marking ; topic-comment |
| Source: | http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis08_5schwarz.pdf ; (in:) S. Ishihara / S. Jannedy / A. Schwarz : Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 8, 2007, 115-139 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 208065962 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
