The expression of information structure in Cicopi

This chapter describes the information structure in Cicopi, discussing and illustrating the information-structural function of verbal inflection, word order, three typesof cleft constructions, two types of predicate doubling, and the choice of referentexpression. Cicopi has three different forms to mark the present tense: conjoint,disjoint/habitual, and progressive; and the perfective is marked by -ile/-ite or to-.The conditions under which these are used seems to depend not just on constituent-finality and aspect, but also on focus and maybe evidentiality. There is no dedicatedfocus position in Cicopi and the three clefts, as well as subject inversion, are usedto express various types of focus.