TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
T1  - Focus expressions in Foodo
N2  - This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically characterized: the focused constituent is in sentence-initial position and is second always marked obligatorily by a focus marker, which is nɩ for non-subjects and N for subjects. Complementary to these structures, Foodo knows an elliptic form consisting of the focused constituent and a predication marker gɛ́. It will be shown that the two focus markers can be analyzed as having developed out of the homophone conjunction nɩ and that the constraints on the use of the focus markers can be best explained by this fact.
KW  - focus constructions
KW  - scope of focus
KW  - focus types
KW  - Foodo
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19428
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rooth, Mats
T1  - Notions of focus anaphoricity
N2  - This article reviews some of the theoretical notions and empirical phenomena which figure in current formal-semantic theories of focus. It also develops the connection between “alternative semantics” and “givenness” accounts of focus interpretation.
KW  - focus
KW  - intonation
KW  - breadth of focus
KW  - scope of focus
KW  - focus anaphoricity
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19622
ER  -