Focus Strategies in African Languages

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.



Enoch Oladé Aboh,Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Katharina Hartmannand Malte Zimmermann, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

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