Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic

by Enoch Oladé Aboh

Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies in African Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical literature on focus.

The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110195933
• ISBN13: 9783110195934
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary