Anne Schwarz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Anne Schwarz is involved.

Title

The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa

Edited by Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz

This book analyzes the different patterns found across subsaharan Africa to express information structure. Based on languages from all four African language phyla, it documents the great diversity of linguistic means used to encode information-structural phenomena and is therefore highly relevant… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 91] 2010. xii, 383 pp.

Articles

Schwarz, Anne 2018 Chapter 7. Between verb and noun: Exploration into the domain of nonverbal predication in Ecuadorian Secoya Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages, Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 193–216 | Chapter

This article describes nonverbal predication in Ecuadorian Secoya, an underdescribed West Tukanoan language. The repertoire includes a particle copula with restricted verbal features, a locative-existential copula verb which fulfills an auxiliary function with verbal and nonverbal predicates, and… read more

Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz 2010 Introduction The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa, Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), pp. vii–xii | Article

Schwarz, Anne 2010 Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa, Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.), pp. 287–314 | Article

The article investigates the role of a group of cognate “ME”-particles in the complex focus systems of four Gur languages. On the basis of new data it is revealed that the particles have a presuppositional structure and mark narrow focus on the verb’s denotation or on verbal operators in varying… read more