Intervention and focus in Asante Twi
- This paper concerns the distribution of wh-words in Asante Twi, which has both a focus fronting strategy and an in-situ strategy. We show that the focusing and the in-situ constructions are not simply equally available options. On the contrary, there are several cases where the focusing strategy must be used and the in-situ strategy is ungrammatical. We show that the cases in Asante Twi are "intervention effects", which are attested in other languages, like German, Korean, and French. We identify a core set of intervening elements that all of these languages have and discuss their properties.
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| Author: | Gregory Kobele, Harold Torrence |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310012 |
| 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: | Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Aschanti-Sprache |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Page Number: | 24 |
| First Page: | 161 |
| Last Page: | 184 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 454822340 |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| 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 |
