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Title Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa | ||
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http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2006/873/ | ||
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Date 2005 | ||
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Author(s) Fiedler, Ines; Schwarz, Anne | ||
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Contributor(s) Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur | ||
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Abstract 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. | ||
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Subject(s) ex-situ focus; focus marker; relative clause; conjunction, grammaticalization; Language, Linguistics | ||
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Language eng | ||
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Publisher Universität Potsdam; Extern. Extern | ||
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Type of publication Article | ||
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Format application/pdf | ||
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Source Interdisciplinary studies on information structure: ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 | ||
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Rights http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php | ||
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Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8739 | ||
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Repository Potsdam - University of Potsdam 
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