TY  - CONF
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
T1  - Focal aspects in the Lelemi verb system
T2  - International Workshop on "The Description and Documentation of Ghana-Togo-Mountain Languages". - Ho, Ghana: 24. - 28.7.2006
N2  - 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.
KW  - Informationsstruktur
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12554
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1134296
ER  -