The focus particle in Kîîtharaka
- In this paper we argue that Kîîıtharaka in situ and ex situ object focus constructions are exhaustive. Sentences with a preverbal focus marker are argued to be nonexhaustive. Our conclusions are based on felicity in mention-some contexts, simple and multiple questions and entailment relations.
Author: | Klaus Abels, Peter Muriungi |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309936 |
URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/187.html?&L=1] |
ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
Parent Title (English): | 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 ... |
Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
GND Keyword: | Tharaka; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Gradpartikel |
Volume: | 46 |
Page Number: | 20 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 20 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 381129950 |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Lexikologie/Etymologie / Lexicology/Etymology | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 46 = Papers on information structure in African languages |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306894 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |