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Information structure in African languages: corpora and tools
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Morphological focus marking in Gùrùntùm (West Chadic)
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The paper presents an in-depth study of focus marking in Gùrùntùm, a West Chadic language spoken in Bauchi Province of Northern Nigeria. Focus in Gùrùntùm is marked morphologically by means of a focus marker a, which typically precedes the focus constituent. Even though the morphological focus-marking system of Gùrùntùm allows for a lot of fine-grained distinctions in information structure (IS) in principle, the language is not entirely free of focus ambiguities that arise as the result of conflicting IS- and syntactic requirements that govern the placement of focus markers. We show that morphological focus marking with a applies across different types of focus, such as newinformation, contrastive, selective and corrective focus, and that a does not have a second function as a perfectivity marker, as is assumed in the literature. In contrast, we show at the end of the paper that a can also function as a foregrounding device at the level of discourse structure.
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ddc:400; Department Linguistik
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URL: https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/files/1766/Kapitel2_05.pdf https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19525 https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/opus4-ubp/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1766
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Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiaatic
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