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This e-book analyzes different styles came upon throughout subsaharan Africa to precise details constitution. according to languages from all 4 African language phyla, it records the nice range of linguistic skill used to encode information-structural phenomena and is as a result hugely suitable for the most pertinent questions in smooth linguistic concept. The distinctive contribution of this quantity is the point of view on numerous information-structurally similar phenomena which cross a long way past classical notions corresponding to concentration and subject. certain investigations are devoted to thus far much less mentioned focal subcategories, like specialise in verbal operators or the thetic-categorical contrast. ultimately, the information-structural configuration of unmarked, canonical sentence constructions is well-known. The papers supply facts that the formal skill to encode information-structural different types diversity from capability akin to morphological markers or syntactic operations, well-known in linguistics, to much less famous concepts, reminiscent of defocalization instead of focalization.
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10 However, the example taken from a text given in (10), indicates that the verb may be in focus when in its canonical position without any special marking. The sentence in (10) contains a sequence of verbs all acting on the same object. The pronominal coding of the object found in the non-initial verb phrases indicates it is topical in those . pst’ surfaces with a high-mid tone contour in this context. This is presumably the result of tone sandhi with a following mid-tone question word with which it forms a tight phonological phrase, at least in an impressionistic sense.
This is presumably the result of tone sandhi with a following mid-tone question word with which it forms a tight phonological phrase, at least in an impressionistic sense. . See the discussion around the examples in (13) for comments on the use of the focus particle lῑ seen in the first clause in (9). Its presence there appears to be at least partially conditioned by the fact that the infinitival verb form preceding it is not followed by an object. 10. I leave out discussion of so-called operator focus here (see Dik 1997:â•›330–331) since it has not been examined extensively enough to come to any concrete generalizations.
B. Kúm ájè. ’ Kúm ājén lῑ. ’ The second verb-phrase final particle of this type that has been encountered has the form cәˉ and is found in certain negated clauses. In elicitation contexts, it seems to be optional, but it appears that its presence is more natural when the negated verb is not followed by an object than when it is followed by an object. Relevant examples are given in (14a) and (14b). Sentence (14a) represents the first variant elicited when the verb was not followed by an object, and sentence (14b) represents the first variant elicited when the verb was followed by an object.
