TY  - CHAP
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
T1  - Focus expressions in Foodo
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., S. Jannedy, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 8
N2  - This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically characterized: the focused constituent is in sentence-initial position and is second always marked obligatorily by a focus marker, which is [...] for non-subjects and N for subjects. Complementary to these structures, Foodo knows an elliptic form consisting of the focused constituent and a predication marker [...]. It will be shown that the two focus markers can be analyzed as having developed out of the homophone conjunction n[...] and that the constraints on the use of the focus markers can be best explained by this fact.
KW  - focus constructions
KW  - scope of focus
KW  - focus types
KW  - Foodo
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10040
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112283
IS  - 114
SP  - 18
EP  - 97
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -