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Date: 18-Dec-2007
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: Focus Strategies in African Languages: Aboh, Hartmann, Zimmermann
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From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Focus Strategies in African Languages: Aboh, Hartmann, Zimmermann (Eds)
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Title: Focus Strategies in African Languages 
Subtitle: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 191  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
	   http://www.mouton-publishers.com

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sp/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110195934-1 

Editor: Katharina Hartmann
Editor: Enoch Oladé Aboh
Author: Malte Zimmermann

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110195934 Pages: 324 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110195934 Pages: 324 Price: U.S. $ 137.00 Comment: for orders placed in North America

Abstract:

Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major
fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus
Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of
focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African
languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical
literature on focus.

The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo and
Afro-Asiatic languages from several theoretical and methodological
perspectives, ranging from detailed generative analysis to careful
typological generalization across languages. Their common aim is to deepen
our understanding of whether and how the information-structural category of
focus is represented and marked in natural language. Topics investigated
are, among others, the relation of focus and prosody, the effects of
information structure on word order, ex situ versus in situ strategies of
focus marking, the inventory of focus marking devices, focus and related
constructions, focus-sensitive particles. 

The present inquiry into the focus systems of African languages has
repercussions on existing theories of focus. It reveals new focus
strategies as well as fine-tuned focus distinctions that are not discussed
in the theoretical literature, which is almost exclusively based on
well-documented intonation languages. 

Keywords 
African languages; pragmatics

Readership 
Theoretical Linguists, Africanists, Typologists

Prices are subject to change. Prices do not include postage and handling. 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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