Focus expressions in Yom
- This paper deals with the means for expressing the pragmatic category of focus in Yom, which is an Oti-Volta language of the Yom-Nawdem group spoken by about 74,000 people (Gordon 2005, online version) in the department of Donga in Northern Benin. The study is based on results of my field research carried out in March/April 2005 in Djougou (Benin), within the framework of the project “Focus in Gur and Kwa languages”. Main aim of this fieldwork was to study the expression of focus in Yom. Regarding the basic grammatical structure of the language, I mainly rely on various publications by Beacham (1969, 1991, and 1997).
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| Author: | Ines FiedlerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1134719 |
| URL: | http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?lang=ger&id=36975 |
| Parent Title (German): | Gur Papers / Cahiers Voltaiques |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2009/10/26 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2009/10/26 |
| GND Keyword: | Informationsstruktur |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Page Number: | 10 |
| First Page: | 112 |
| Last Page: | 121 |
| Source: | (in:) Gur Papers / Cahiers Voltaiques, 2006, 7, S. 112-121 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 219632812 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Afrika südlich der Sahara | |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
