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Mood, Exhaustivity & Focus Marking in non-European Languages (2015)
Duah, Reginald Akuoko ; Fominyam, Henry Z. ; Klose, Claudius ; Pfeil, Simone ; Genzel, Susanne ; Kügler, Frank ; Valle, Daniel
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.
Empirical investigation of focus and exhaustivity in Akan (2015)
Pfeil, Simone ; Genzel, Susanne ; Kügler, Frank
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.
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