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FOCUS STRATEGIES IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES
THE INTERACTION OF FOCUS AND GRAMMAR IN NIGER-CONGO AND AFRO-ASIATIC |
| By: |
Katharina Hartmann (Editor), Malte Zimmermann (Editor), Enoch Olade Aboh (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£128.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3110195933 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783110195934 |
| Publisher: |
WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO |
| Pub. date: |
19 December, 2007 |
| Series: |
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 191 |
| Pages: |
324 |
| Description: |
Contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. This book investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus-marking devices, and others. |
| Synopsis: |
The book contains a collection of articles on focus in the Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic language groups. It investigates focus-related phenomena from different theoretical and methodological perspectives: the interaction of focus and prosody, the effect of focus on word order, the inventory of focus-marking devices, and others. The volume enhances the understanding of focus-marking in natural language. |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Mouton de Gruyter |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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