OPUS 4 Latest Documents RSS Feed Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:25:57 +0200 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:25:57 +0200 Focus or narrative constructions? : Morphosyntactically marked focus constructions in some Gur and Kwa languages http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12559 0. Introduction 1. Observations concerning the structure of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions 1.1 First observation: SF vs. NSF asymmetry 1.2 Second observation: NSF-NAR parallelism 1.3 Affirmative ex-situ focus constructions (SF, NSF), and narrative clauses (NAR) 2. Grammaticalization 2.1 Cleft hypothesis 2.2 Movement hypothesis 2.3 Narrative hypothesis 2.3.1 Back- or Foregrounding? 2.3.2 Converse directionality of FM and conjunction 3. Language specific analysis 4. Conclusionary remarks References Ines Fiedler; Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12559 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:25:57 +0200 Copulative and narrative patterns in Gur focus constructions http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12558 Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12558 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:21:47 +0200 Predication focus and "affirmative" markers in Gur http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12557 Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12557 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:15:58 +0200 Focus expressions in Yom http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12556 Ines Fiedler other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12556 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:11:25 +0200 Focal aspects in the Lelemi verb system http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12554 In our presentation we will outline the verb system of Lelemi and concentrate on certain “focal” aspects which are of primary interest to us. Lelemi has two TAMP paradigms: one constituting the so-called “simple tenses”, the other the so-called “relative tenses” (Allan 1973), although not every “simple tense” has a counterpart in the “relative tenses”. The simple paradigm is formed by subject prefixes (prefixed pronouns for 1st or 2nd person and noun class pronouns for 3rd persons) and the verb form whereas the relative paradigm is build up by the obligatory use of an external subject noun, an invariable verb prefix, and the verb form. While the simple paradigm is used in quite a lot of syntactic environments the relative paradigm only shows up in relative clauses with the subject being the head as well as in subject and sentence focus constructions including questions concerning the subject. We will show some interesting interactions between the grammatical expression of focus and the verb system and sketch the grammaticalisation path of the morpheme nà. Anne Schwarz; Ines Fiedler other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12554 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:58 +0200 Vom GURren und KWAken und anderen Zungen http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12550 Wenngleich Brigitte Reineke vieler Zungen mächtig ist, möchte ich mich im Folgenden der von ihr Zeit ihres Lebens besonders präferierten Gruppe der Gur- und Kwasprachen und ihren aktuellen Forschungsinteressen in diesen widmen. Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12550 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:53:20 +0200 Sentence-medial adverbials in Buli (Gur, Northern Ghana) http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12549 Research on adverbials in sentence-medial position in the North- Ghanaian Gur language Buli suggests that the language offers two divergent slots for adverbials between subject and verb. Special attention is paid to the group of sentence-medial deictic temporal adverbials. While they have the potential to develop into tense markers, this process seems to depend on special information structural conditions. Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12549 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:04 +0200 Discourse structure and information packaging in cross-linguistic perspective http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12548 Anne Schwarz; Svetlana Petrova other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12548 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:40:04 +0200 Focus in Gur and Kwa http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12547 The project investigates focus phenomena in the two genetically relatedWest African Gur and Kwa language groups of the Niger-Congo phylum. Most of its members are tone languages, they are similar with respect to word order typology (all are SVO languages), but of divergent morphological type (agglutinating Gur versus isolating Kwa). Ines Fiedler; Brigitte Reineke; Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12547 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:34:20 +0200 Prosody of focus marking in Ewe http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12546 Ines Fiedler; Stefanie Jannedy other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12546 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:22:45 +0200 Subject focus in West African languages http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12545 Ines Fiedler; Katharina Hartmann; Brigitte Reineke; Anne Schwarz; Malte Zimmermann other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12545 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:08:33 +0200 Focus expressions in Foodo http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12544 Ines Fiedler other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12544 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:57:31 +0200 Zum Ausdruck des Fokus im Foodo http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12543 Ines Fiedler other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12543 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:33:49 +0200 To be or not to be? About the copula system in Buli (Gur) http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12542 This talk concerns the copula system in Buli, a Ghanaian language which has also been attested in Bahia (Rodrigues 1935, Zwernemann 1968). Special focus will be put on the categorization of two copula-reminiscent elements for which I will propose a discoursepragmatic analysis. Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12542 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:26:13 +0200 What is it about? The topic in some Ghanaian Gur grammars http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12541 This talk deals with the pragmatic notion topic and its encoding in Buli and some related Ghanaian Gur languages and reveals that it is responsible for several intricate phenomena in the grammar of these languages. Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12541 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:18:40 +0200 Principles of information packaging in Baatonum (Gur) http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12540 This talk presents a study on information structure in the under-documented Gur language Baatonum (Bénin and Nigeria, language code bba). Anne Schwarz other http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12540 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:11:08 +0200