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Focus Strategies in African Languages

Focus Strategies in African Languages The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

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Publisher's 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9783119168120
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
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Language: English
Number of pages: 324
Weight: -1g