Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic (Hardcover)

Focus: The African way Enoch Olade Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, and Malte Zimmermann Part IFocus and prosody Nuclear stress in Eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) Victor Manfredi Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho Sabine Zerbian Part IIFocus and word order Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo Tom Guldemann Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu Lutz Marten Part IIIFocus and morphosyntax Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali Brigitte Reineke Focus or narrative construction? Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu Florian Schwarz Focused versus non-focused wh-Phrases Enoch Olade Aboh Coptic relative tenses: The Profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device Chris Reintges Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages Mara Frascarelli and Annarita Puglielli Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A re-analysis of the particle nee/cee Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann