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  -