Publikationen
Aktuelle Publikationen
. 2013.
Complex predicates in Ama. In: Nuba Mountain Language Studies,
ed. by Schadeberg, Thilo and Roger Blench, 433-449. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
. 2013.
Prosody of focus marking in Ewe. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 34(1): 1-46.
. 2012.
Thetic speaker-instantiating quotative indexes as a cross-linguistic type. In:
Quotatives: cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary perspectives,
ed. by Buchstaller, Isabelle and Ingrid van Alphen, 117-142. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
. 2012.
Predicate-centered focus in Gbe. In: Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL),
Cologne, August 17-21, 2009, ed. by Brenzinger, Matthias and Anne-Maria Fehn, 303-405. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
Eingereicht
. To appear.
Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Kwa. A text-based study on Anii. Afrika und Übersee.
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Focus-marking and topicality in Mombo. Submitted to Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.
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Focalization particles in Bambara. Submitted to Mandekan.
Frühere Publikationen
2011
. 2011.
Attributive possession and the alienability split in Gbe. In: Afrikanische Sprachen im Fokus.
Linguistische Beiträge zum 19. Afrikanistentag, Mainz, April 8-10, 2010,
ed. by Kramer, Raija, Holger Tröbs and Raimund Kastenholz, 111-128. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
. 2011.
Information structure in African languages: Corpora and tools. Language Resources and Evaluation
45(3): 3621-374.
. 2011.
Linguistic fieldnotes III: Information structure in Gur and Kwa languages.
Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 16,
Working Papers of the SFB 632. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
2010
. 2010.
Subject focus in West African languages.
In: Information structure. Theoretical, typological and experimental perspectives,
ed. by Zimmermann, Malte and Caroline Féry, 234-257. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
. 2010.
Informationsstruktur oder: Was es in der Grammatik zu entdecken gibt. CD-ROM. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
. 2010.
The expression of information structure. A documentation of its diversity across Africa.
Typological Studies in Language 91.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010, xii, 375 pp. + index
. 2010.
The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu Family. In:
The expression of information structure. A documentation of its diversity across Africa,
ed. by Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz, 69-94. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
. 2010.
On the obligatoriness of focus marking: Evidence from Tar B'arma. In:
The expression of information structure. A documentation of its diversity across Africa,
ed. by Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz, 117-144. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
. 2010.
Verb and predication focus markers in Gur. In:
The expression of information structure. A documentation of its diversity across Africa,
ed. by Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz, 287-314. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2009
. 2009.
Contrastive
topic marking in Gbe. In: Current issues in unity and diversity of languages.
Collection of papers selected from the CIL 18, Korea University in Seoul, July 21-26, 2008, 295-308.
Seoul: The Linguistic Society of Korea.
2009.
Focal aspects of the verb system of Lelemi. Journal of West African Languages, 57-73.
. 2009.
From topic to subject marking: Implications for a typology of subject marking. In:
Differential subject marking,
ed. by de Hoop, Helen and Peter de Swart, 199-221. Dordrecht: Springer.
. 2009.
To be or not to be? About the copula system in Buli (Gur). In:
Proceedings of the Special World Congress of African Linguistics São Paulo 2008:
Exploring the African Language Connection in the Americas,
ed. by Petter, Margarida Tadonni and Ronald Beline Mendes, 63-278. São Paulo: Humanitas.
. 2009.
How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?
In: Selected proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics,
ed. by Matondo, Masangu, Fiona McLaughlin and Eric Potsdam, 182-192. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
. 2009.
Tonal focus reflections in Buli and some Gur relatives. Lingua 119: 950-972.
2008
. 2008.
Informationsstruktur: Die sprachlichen Mittel der Gliederung von Äußerung, Satz und Text - Sonderforschungsbereich 632. In:
Humboldt-Spektrum. 15/1, 42-48. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
. 2008.
The syntax-pragmatics of Lelemi predicates. Afrika und Übersee 90, 133-158.
. 2008.
Focus asymmetries in Bura. In: Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 10,
Working Papers of the SFB 632, ed. by Ishihara, Shinichiro and Anne Schwarz, 45-92.
Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
2007
. 2007.
Expansion im Aja. In: Afrikanische Horizonte, ed. by Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine, 99-112. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
. 2007.
Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo. In:
Focus strategies in African languages. The interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic,
ed. by Aboh, Enoch O., Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann, 83-111. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
. 2007.
Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa. In:
Focus strategies in African languages. The interaction of focus and grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic,
ed. by Aboh, Enoch O., Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann, 267-286. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
. 2007.
Focus expressions in Foodo. In: Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 8,
Working Papers of the SFB 632, ed. by Ishihara, Shinichiro, Stefanie Jannedy and Anne Schwarz, 97-114.
Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.
. 2007.
The particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba. In:
Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) 8,
Working Papers of the SFB 632, ed. by Ishihara, Shinichiro, Stefanie Jannedy and Anne Schwarz, 115-139.
Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.