OPUS 4 | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research

Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research

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What is it about? The topic in some Ghanaian Gur grammars (2008)
Anne Schwarz: 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.

Focus in Gur and Kwa (2006)
Ines Fiedler Brigitte Reineke Anne Schwarz: 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).

Discourse structure and information packaging in cross-linguistic perspective (2006)
Anne Schwarz Svetlana Petrova

How many focus markers are there in Konkomba? (2009)
Anne Schwarz: This article discusses the divergent status of the two particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba, a Gur language (Niger-Congo) of the Gurma subgroup. While previous studies claim that both particles are focus markers, this author argues that only the particle lá should be analyzed as a pure pragmatic device. Distributional studies suggest that the use of particle lé, on the other hand, is only required under specific focus conditions, and primarily represents a syntactic device.

Preverbal negative markers in Buli (1999)
Anne Schwarz: This article deals with some aspects of negation in Buli, a Gur language spoken by the Bulsa people in Northern Ghana.

Low tone spreading in Buli (2003)
Anne Schwarz: In Buli, tone indicates lexical information as well as grammatical information. The changing of tone patterns regularly observed on lexemes is covered best by an autosegmental approach with autonomous tonal and segmental tiers. It reveals considerable deviations between underlying and surfacing tones at several morpho- yntactic points. Realization of tone is sometimes oppressed or delayed. Cause for such disturbances is in all cases a low tone which spreads to the right and affects following high tones with different results. The aim of this paper is to show how L spreading acts and how it is integrated in the system of tonal contrast.

Focus expressions in Yom (2006)
Ines Fiedler: 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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