Focus or narrative constructions? : Morphosyntactically marked focus constructions in some Gur and Kwa languages
- 0. Introduction 1. Observations concerning the structure of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions 1.1 First observation: SF vs. NSF asymmetry 1.2 Second observation: NSF-NAR parallelism 1.3 Affirmative ex-situ focus constructions (SF, NSF), and narrative clauses (NAR) 2. Grammaticalization 2.1 Cleft hypothesis 2.2 Movement hypothesis 2.3 Narrative hypothesis 2.3.1 Back- or Foregrounding? 2.3.2 Converse directionality of FM and conjunction 3. Language specific analysis 4. Conclusionary remarks References
Author: | Ines FiedlerGND, Anne SchwarzORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1134338 |
Parent Title (German): | International Workshop: Topic and Focus: Information Structure and Grammar in African Languages. - Amsterdam: 3. - 4.10.2004 |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2009/10/13 |
Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2009/10/13 |
GND Keyword: | Informationsstruktur |
Source: | Vortrag International Workshop: Topic and Focus: Information Structure and Grammar in African Languages. - Amsterdam: 3. - 4.10.2004 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 219442606 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Grammatikforschung / Grammar research |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |