TY  - BOOK
A1  - Grubic, Mira
A1  - Genzel, Susanne
A1  - Kügler, Frank
T1  - Linguistic Fieldnotes I: Information Structure in different African Languages
N2  - This is the 13th issue of the working paper series Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) of the Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 632. It is the first part of a series of Linguistic Fieldnote issues which present data collected by members of different projects of the SFB during fieldwork on various languages or dialects spoken worldwide. This part of the Fieldnote Series is dedicated to data from African languages. It contains contributions by Mira Grubic (A5) on Ngizim, and Susanne Genzel & Frank Kügler (D5) on Akan. The papers allow insights into various aspects of the elicitation of formal correlates of focus and related phenomena in different African languages investigated by the SFB in the second funding phase, especially in the period between 2007 and 2010.
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 13 
KW  - Ngizim
KW  - Akan
KW  - information structure
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49684
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Genzel, Susanne
A1  - Kügler, Frank
T1  - How to elicit semi-spontaneous focus realizations with specific tonal patterns
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - This article presents a situation description production experiment investigating the interaction between syntax and information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger- Congo family spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put the object in narrow informational focus or narrow corrective focus while controlling for the tonal structure of the target word. Contrary to the prediction that corrective focus is marked by fronting and morphological marking of the focused constituent the data suggest that the in-situ strategy is the preferred one.
KW  - Akan
KW  - information structure
KW  - syntax
Y1  - 2011
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49749
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 13
SP  - 77
EP  - 102
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Duah, Reginald Akuoko
A1  - Fominyam, Henry Z.
A1  - Klose, Claudius
A1  - Pfeil, Simone
A1  - Genzel, Susanne
A1  - Kügler, Frank
A1  - Valle, Daniel
ED  - Grubic, Mira
ED  - Bildhauer, Felix
T1  - Mood, Exhaustivity & Focus Marking in non-European Languages
N2  - This is the 19th — and final — issue of the working paper series Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) of the Collaborative Research Center 632. In this issue, we present cross-linguistic work on Mood,  Exhaustivity, and Focus Marking, on African languages and American languages.
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 19 
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-81200
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfeil, Simone
A1  - Genzel, Susanne
A1  - Kügler, Frank
T1  - Empirical investigation of focus and exhaustivity in Akan
JF  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
N2  - It has been observed for many African languages that focussed subjects
have to appear outside of their syntactic base position, as opposed to
focussed objects, which can remain in-situ. This is known as subjectobject
asymmetry of focus marking, which Fiedler et al. (2010) claim
to hold also for Akan. Genzel (2013), on the other hand, argues that
Akan does not exhibit a subject-object focus asymmetry. A questionnaire
study and a production experiment were carried out to investigate
whether focussed subjects may indeed be realized in-situ in Akan. The
results suggest that (i) focussed subjects do not have to be obligatorily
realized ex-situ, and that (ii) the syntactic preference for the realization
of a focussed subject highly depends on exhaustivity.
KW  - Akan
KW  - focus
KW  - subjects
KW  - exhaustivity
KW  - in-situ
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-83774
SN  - 1614-4708
SN  - 1866-4725
IS  - 19
SP  - 87
EP  - 109
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -