Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research
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What is it about? The topic in some Ghanaian Gur grammars
(2008)
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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.
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To be or not to be? About the copula system in Buli (Gur)
(2008)
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Anne Schwarz
- 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.
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Zum Ausdruck des Fokus im Foodo
(2006)
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Ines Fiedler
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Focus expressions in Foodo
(2006)
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Ines Fiedler
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Subject focus in West African languages
(2006)
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Ines Fiedler
Katharina Hartmann
Brigitte Reineke
Anne Schwarz
Malte Zimmermann
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Prosody of focus marking in Ewe
(2006)
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Ines Fiedler
Stefanie Jannedy
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Focus in Gur and Kwa
(2006)
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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).
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Discourse structure and information packaging in cross-linguistic perspective
(2006)
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Anne Schwarz
Svetlana Petrova
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Sentence-medial adverbials in Buli (Gur, Northern Ghana)
(2006)
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Anne Schwarz
- 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.
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How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?
(2009)
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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.
