Focus strategies in african languages: the interaction of focus and grammar in niger-congo and afro-asiatic
Éditeur :
De Gruyter
ISBN :
9783110195934
Date de publication :
19 déc. 2007
Dimensions :
23,0 x 15,5 cm
Poids :
600 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Allemagne
The book contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. It investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus-marking devices, and others.