Focus Strategies in African Languages

De Gruyter, 2007

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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.

ISBN-13
9783110195934
ISBN-10
3110195933
Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-12-19
Pages
330
Dimensions
230x155x
Weight
600