By Hartmann, Katharina, Enoch Olade Aboh, Katharina Hartmann, Malte Zimmermann
During the last 20 years, concentration has turn into a favourite subject in significant fields in linguistic study (syntax, semantics, phonology). concentration suggestions in? African Languages contributes to the continued dialogue of concentration through investigating focus-related phenomena in a number of African languages, so much of that have been under-represented within the theoretical literature on concentration. The articles within the quantity examine concentration ideas in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from numerous theoretical and methodological views, starting from special generative research to cautious typological generalization throughout languages. Their universal objective is to deepen our figuring out of even if and the way the information-structural class of concentration is represented and marked in usual language. themes investigated are, between others, the relation of concentration and prosody, the consequences of knowledge constitution on note order, ex situ as opposed to in situ thoughts of concentration marking, the stock of concentration marking units, concentration and similar buildings, focus-sensitive debris. the current inquiry into the focal point structures of African languages has repercussions on current theories of concentration. It finds new concentration options in addition to fine-tuned concentration differences that aren't mentioned within the theoretical literature, that's virtually solely according to well-documented intonation languages.
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Viewed accentually, however, the root-initial H in (7b) is only superficially linearized on the verb but is generated on a later cycle. As to H2 in (8), its own appearance depends on the appearance of H1, moreover its position apparently at the right edge of VP draws semantic support from the fact in (8) that the object cannot bear narrow scope: What is in focus in (8) is either the verb by itself or the entire V+O sequence if any. It’s incorrect to describe the interpretation of (8) as “translated into English with contrastive stress on the verb” (Odden 1984, 279).