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.

Metadaten
Author:	Anne Schwarz ORCiD GND
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112621
URL:	ttp://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis08_5schwarz.pdf
Parent Title (German):	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
Publisher:	Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:	Potsdam
Document Type:	Part of a Book
Language:	English
Date of Publication (online):	2008/11/10
Year of first Publication:	2007
Publishing Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:	2008/11/10
Tag:	Konkomba; conjunction; morphological focus marking; syntactic focus marking; topic-comment
Page Number:	25
First Page:	115
Last Page:	139
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:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:	Linguistik
Licence (German):	Deutsches Urheberrecht

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