Focus strategies in African languages : the interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic

Includes bibliographical references and index Focus and grammar: the contribution of African languages / Enoch Oladé Aboh, Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann -- Nuclear stress in Eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) / Victor Manfredi -- Investigating prosodic fucus marking in Northern Sotho / Sabine Zerbian -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo / Tom Güldermann -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: evidence from Bantu / Lutz Marten -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu / Florian Schwartz -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: information structure in Cushitic languages / Mara Frascarelli and Annarita Puglielli -- Coptic relative tenses: the profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device / Chris H. Reintges -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali / Brigitte Reineke -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: a reanalysis of the particle nee/cee / Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa / Anne Schwarz and Ines Fiedler -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases / Enoch Oladé Aboh