TY  - CHAP
A1  - De Kind, Jasper
T1  - Pre-verbal focus in Kisikongo (H16a, Bantu)
T2  - Proceedings of the Workshop BantuSynPhonIS : Preverbal Domain(s), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin;  ZASPil  Vol. 57, S. 95-122
N2  - The present paper aims at describing different pre-verbal focus strategies in Kisikongo (H16a), spoken in the vicinity of Mbanza Kongo, northern Angola. This western Bantu language is part of the Kikongo Language Cluster (KLC), stretching from southern Gabon to northern Angola, including Cabinda and parts of Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa. Kikongo exhibits a clause-internal pre-verbal argument focus position, which has rarely been reported in Bantu languages, except in Mbuun (B87) (Bostoen and Mundeke 2012) and Nsong (B85d) (Koni Muluwa and Bostoen, this volume), both spoken in the neighboring Kwilu region of the DRC. The more extensively studied eastern and southern Bantu languages generally have a post-verbal argument focus position (cf. Watters 1979, Morimoto 2000, Creissels 2004, Güldemann 2007, Buell 2009, van der Wal 2009, among others). In addition to this mono-clausal argument focus strategy, Kisikongo also relies on different bi-clausal constructions to focus arguments, i.e. cleft-constructions.
KW  - Bantusprachen
KW  - Kongo-Sprache
KW  - Thema-Rhema-Gliederung
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36419
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364199
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 57
SP  - 95
EP  - 122
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -