Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages 1
4. Part I. Focus and prosody
5. Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) 15
6. Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho 55
7. Part II. Information structure and word order
8. Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo 83
9. Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu 113
10. Part III. Ex-situ and in-situ strategies of focus marking
11. Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu 139
12. Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages 161
13. Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device 185
14. Part IV. The inventory of focus marking devices
15. Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali 223
16. Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee 241
17. Part V. Focus and related constructions
18. Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa 267
19. Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases 287
20. 315-326 315