The Expression of Information Structure

Name: The Expression of Information Structure | A documentation of its diversity across Africa
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A documentation of its diversity across Africa

Ines Fiedler Anne Schwarz(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 24. März 2010

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The Expression of Information Structure
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Introduction
References
Information structure marking in Sandawe texts
1. Introduction
2. Grammatical preliminaries
3. Previous research on information structure marking in Sandawe
4. Information structure marking in Sandawe texts
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Appendices
Topic and focus fields in Naki
1. Introduction
2. Brief overview of Naki sentential syntax
3. The encoding of information structure in Naki
4. Postverbal focalization
5. Analyzing postverbal focalization
6. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family
1. Introduction
2. Cleft constructions and contrastive term focus
3. Polyfunctional cleft constructions
4. Cleft constructions and entity-central theticity
Abbreviations
References
Focus marking in Aghem
1. Introduction
2. Syntactic marking of focus (Watters 1979)
3. Morphological marking of focus on the verbal auxiliary (Anderson 1979)
4. Marking of focus in the noun phrase
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
On the obligatoriness of focus marking
1. Introduction
2. Focus-marking strategies in Tar B'arma
3. Obligatoriness of focus marking in Tar B'arma
4. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu
0. Introduction: Marking properties of informational status in Isu
1. Word order: Structural encoding of information value
2. Morphological encoding of information value
3. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives
1. Introduction
2. Approach
3. Three construction types compared
4. Inverted passive constructions in three selected narratives
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber
1. Introduction
2. Views on topic-focus articulation and word order variation in Berber
3. Taqbaylit
4. Tashelhit
5. Word order flexibility and discourse-configurationality over time
Abbreviations
References
Focus in Atlantic languages
1. Introduction
2. Formal marking of focus in the Atlantic languages
3. Focus: Uses and definition
4. Related features
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Topic and focus construction asymmetry
1. Introduction
2. Initial comparison
3. Main clause properties
4. Resumptive function
5. Modifiers in emphatic constituents
6. Discussion
Abbreviations
References
Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur
0. Introduction
1. Previous analyses
2. Theoretical framework and elicitation method
3. Focus system
4. The role of ME-particles in verb-and-predication focus
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Why contrast matters: Information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic)
1. Generalities
2. Basic syntactic structure
3. Theoretical background
4. Topics
5. Topic-comment structures and the formal unmarkedness of focus in Gawwada
6. Thetic sentences and the focalization of new subjects
7. Marking contrast: =kka
8. Argument focus, again: Word-order change
9. Incorporation
10. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Focus and the Ejagham verb system
1. A typology of focus
2. The perfective and imperfective verbal forms in Western Ejagham
3. Scope and communicative point of focus relative to the ConstF forms
4. Generalizing on the use of the constituent and operator focus verb forms
5. Tense, aspect and mood, and the pragmatic notion of focus
6. Concluding comments
Abbreviations
References
Language index
Subject index
The series Typological Studies in Language

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