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  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19449
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - QUIS data from Buli, Kɔnni and Baatɔnum with notes on the comparative approach
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Selection of QUIS Data for Comparative Goals 2.1 Fairy Tale (Topic and Focus in Coherent Discourse) 2.2 Focus Translation Extract 3. On the Presentation and Comparison of the Data 4. Buli 4.1 Tomatoes Fairy Tale in Buli 4.2 Focus Translation Extract in Buli 5. Kɔnni 5.1 Tomatoes Fairy Tale in Kɔnni 5.2 Focus Translation Extract 6. Baatɔnum 6.1 Tomatoes Fairy Tale in Baatɔnum 6.2 Focus Translation Extract in Baatɔnum
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51415
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 16
SP  - 1
EP  - 48
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Götze, Michael
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
A1  - Endriss, Cornelia
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
A1  - Hinterwimmer, Stefan
A1  - Petrova, Svetlana
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
A1  - Skopeteas, Stavros
A1  - Stoel, Ruben
T1  - Information structure
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS
N2  - The guidelines for Information Structure include instructions for the annotation of Information Status (or ‘givenness’), Topic, and Focus, building upon a basic syntactic annotation of nominal phrases and sentences. A procedure for the annotation of these features is proposed.
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22277
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 7
SP  - 147
EP  - 187
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
T1  - Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages. Based on new empirical evidence from five Gur and Kwa languages, we claim that these focus expressions have to be analysed as biclausal constructions even though they do not represent clefts containing restrictive relative clauses. First, we relativize the partly overgeneralized assumptions about structural correspondences between the out-of-focus part and relative clauses, and second, we show that our data do in fact support the hypothesis of a clause coordinating pattern as present in clause sequences in narration. It is argued that we deal with a non-accidental, systematic feature and that grammaticalization may conceal such basic narrative structures.
KW  - ex-situ focus
KW  - focus marker
KW  - relative clause
KW  - conjunction
KW  - grammaticalization
Y1  - 2005
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8739
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 3
SP  - 111
EP  - 142
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
A1  - Hartmann, Katharina
A1  - Reineke, Brigitte
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Subject focus in West African languages
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-0-19-957095-9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Chiarcos, Christian
A1  - Fiedler, Ines
A1  - Grubic, Mira
A1  - Hartmann, Katharina
A1  - Ritz, Julia
A1  - Schwarz, Anne
A1  - Zeldes, Amir
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
T1  - Information structure in African languages corpora and tools
JF  - Language resources and evaluation
N2  - In this paper, we describe tools and resources for the study of African languages developed at the Collaborative Research Centre 632 "Information Structure". These include deeply annotated data collections of 25 sub-Saharan languages that are described together with their annotation scheme, as well as the corpus tool ANNIS, which provides unified access to a broad variety of annotations created with a range of different tools. With the application of ANNIS to several African data collections, we illustrate its suitability for the purpose of language documentation, distributed access, and the creation of data archives.
KW  - African language resources
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Corpus search infrastructure
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-011-9153-0
SN  - 1574-020X
VL  - 45
IS  - 3
SP  - 361
EP  - 374
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -