The expression of information structure : a documentation of its diversity across Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	International Conference on Focus in African Languages Berlin, Germany
Other Authors:	Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, [2010]
Series:	Typological studies in language ; v. 91.
Subjects:	African languages > Grammar, Comparative > Congresses. Focus (Linguistics) > Congresses. Typology (Linguistics) > Congresses. Intonation (Phonetics) > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz
Information structure marking in Sandawe texts / Helen Eaton
Topic and focus fields in Naki / Jeff Good
The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family / Tom Güldemann
Focus marking in Aghem: syntax or semantics? / Larry M. Hyman
On the obligatoriness of focus marking: evidence from Tar B'arma / Peggy Jacob
Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu / Roland Kiessling
Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives / Oliver Kröger
Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber / Amina Mettouchi and Axel Fleisch
Focus in Atlantic languages / Stéphane Robert
Topic and focus construction asymmetry / Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare
Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur / Anne Schwarz
Why contrast matters: information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic) / Mauro Tosco
Focus and the Ejagham verb system / John R. Watters.