Focus expressions in Foodo

This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically characterized: the focused constituent is in sentence-initial position and is second always marked obligatorily by a focus marker, which is [...] for non-subjects and N for subjects. Complementary to these structures, Foodo knows an elliptic form consisting of the focused constituent and a predication marker [...]. It will be shown that the two focus markers can be analyzed as having developed out of the homophone conjunction n[...] and that the constraints on the use of the focus markers can be best explained by this fact.

Metadaten
Author:	Ines Fiedler GND
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112283
Parent Title (German):	Interdisciplinary studies on information structure / Ishihara, S., S. Jannedy, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 8
Publisher:	Univ.-Verl.
Place of publication:	Potsdam
Document Type:	Part of a Book
Language:	English
Date of Publication (online):	2008/11/06
Year of first Publication:	2007
Publishing Institution:	Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:	2008/11/06
Tag:	Foodo; focus constructions; focus types; scope of focus
Issue:	114
First Page:	18
Last Page:	97
Source:	Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 8, 2007, S. 97-114 ; A first version of this paper was presented at the 17th Deutscher Afrikanistentag, München Feb. 2006 and at the 25th Conference on West African Languages, Ouidah, Benin, Aug.
HeBIS-PPN:	207617287
Dewey Decimal Classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:	Linguistik
Licence (German):	Deutsches Urheberrecht

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