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  - 
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  - Fiedler, Ines
T1  - QUIS data from Yom, Aja, Anii and Foodo
BT  - with notes on genetic and areal relations
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This is the second part of the presentation of data elicited by means of QUIS within the project on information structure in Gur and Kwa languages. Whereas the first part (Anne Schwarz) introduces the project and the rationals behind the development of the focus translation task, this part provides some comparative remarks gained from the data presented in both parts.
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-51420
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 16
SP  - 49
EP  - 96
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  - 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  - 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  -