TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - The particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba
N2  - The paper investigates focus marking devices in the scarcely documented North-Ghanaian Gur language Konkomba. The two particles lé and lá occur under specific focus conditions and are therefore regarded as focus markers in the sparse literature. Comparing the distribution and obligatoriness of both alleged focus markers however, I show that one of the particles, lé, is better analyzed as a connective particle, i.e. as a syntactic rather than as a genuine pragmatic marker, and that comparable syntactic focus marking strategies for sentence-initial constituents are also known from related languages.
KW  - morphological focus marking
KW  - syntactic focus marking
KW  - conjunction
KW  - topic-comment
KW  - Konkomba
Y1  - 2008
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1757
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19449
ER  -