In:The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa
Edited by Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz
[Typological Studies in Language 91] 2010
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 24 March 2010
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.91.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.91.toc
Table of contents
Introduction
Information structure marking in Sandawe texts
Topic and focus fields in Naki
The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family
Focus marking in Aghem: Syntax or semantics?
On the obligatoriness of focus marking: Evidence from Tar B’arma
Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu
Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives
Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber
Focus in Atlantic languages
Topic and focus construction asymmetry
Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur
Why contrast matters: Information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic)
Focus and the Ejagham verb system
Language index377
Subject index
