Focus and topic in African languages
By: Sonja Ermisch (ed.).
Series: Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter -- Nr. 18, 2006; Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter -- Nr. 18.
Publisher: Köppe
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9783896457189
Subjects: African languages; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Focus (Linguistics); Topic and comment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Focus and topic in Southern Jukonoid : Yukuben and Akum / Rose-Juliet Anyanwu; title: Focus in Mani and Kisi / G. Tucker Childs; title: Focus and topic constructions in Akan / Sonja Ermisch; title: Topic and focus in Khwe / Christa Kilian-Hatz; title: Focus in !Xun / Christa König; title: Topic and focus constructions in Somali and Berber / Marina Stoyanova; title: On clitic left dislocation in Zulu / Jochen Zeller; title: Focus and focality as a grammatical category in the languages of West Africa / Petr Zima.