TY  - CHAP
A1  - Carlson, Robert
T1  - Genitive focus in Supyire
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  - Supyire has two distinct genitive constructions, one consisting of juxtaposed nouns, and the other marked with a particle. This study demonstrates that the marked genitive correlates significantly in natural discourse with contrastive focus as operationally defined in Myhill and Xing (1996). The method used avoids the vicious circularity of many discourse-based studies of focus. Contrastive focus, rather than being "coded", is a pragmatic construal which is dependent on other elements in the communicative context. This construal is only one of the possible construals of the marked genitive (contra Carlson 1994). In this it is not unlike other so-called "contrastive focus" constructions noted in the literature, such as contrastive stress in English.
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
KW  - Genitiv
KW  - Suppire
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30995
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309953
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/187.html?&L=1]
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 46
SP  - 49
EP  - 67
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -