TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jones, Susie
T1  - Focus in Yorùbá : a semantic/pragmatic account
T2  - Papers on information structure in African languages : [resulted from the International Conference "Focus in African Languages" held October 6-8, 2005 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin] / eds.: Ines Fiedler ...
N2  - Semantic and pragmatic properties of the Yorùbá focus construction have not been fully examined. This paper investigates presupposition, exhaustivity effects, and felicity conditions in some of its attested forms. Yorùbá focus does not trigger existence presuppositions, it does not have any obligatory exhaustivity effects, and argument focus and predicate focus behave differently with respect to question-answer congruence. These properties are compatible Déchaine’s analysis (2002) of Yorùbá focus as inverse predication, essentially a type of cleft.
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
KW  - Yoruba-Sprache
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31000
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310008
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/187.html?&L=1]
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 46
SP  - 143
EP  - 160
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -