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.
Verfasserangaben: | Ines Fiedler, Anne Schwarz |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8739 |
ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Deutsch): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Beteiligte Körperschaft: | Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Berlin> |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 14.09.2006 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | conjunction; ex-situ focus; focus marker; grammaticalization; relative clause |
Ausgabe: | 3 |
Erste Seite: | 111 |
Letzte Seite: | 142 |
Quelle: | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 |
RVK - Regensburger Verbundklassifikation: | ER 300 |
Organisationseinheiten: | Extern / Extern |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlung(en): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2005) 03 |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
Externe Anmerkung: | 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. |