The expression of information structure
Subtitle: a documentation of its diversity across Africa
By: edited by Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz.
Contributors: Fiedler, Ines.; Schwarz, Anne.
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 91
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9789027206725; 9789027288424
Subjects: African languages -- Grammar, Comparative -- Congresses; Focus (Linguistics) -- Congresses; Typology (Linguistics) -- Congresses; Intonation (Phonetics) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the International Conference on Focus in African Languages, held October 6-8, Berlin, Germany.

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