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Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa
- 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.
Author details: | Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8739 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
Title of parent work (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2005 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Contributing corporation: | Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Berlin> |
Release date: | 2006/09/14 |
Tag: | conjunction; ex-situ focus; focus marker; grammaticalization; relative clause |
Issue: | 3 |
First page: | 111 |
Last Page: | 142 |
Source: | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
Organizational units: | Extern / Extern |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2005) 03 |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | erschienen in: Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2005. - 244 S. (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 3) ISBN 3-937786-01-5 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8255 zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam. |