Collaborative Research Centre 632 “Information Structure”

Predicate-centered focus types:
A sample-based typological study
in African languages

Publications

Recent publications

Fiedler, Ines. 2013.
Complex predicates in Ama. In: Nuba Mountain Language Studies, ed. by Schadeberg, Thilo and Roger Blench, 433-449. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.

Fiedler, Ines (with Stefanie Jannedy). 2013.
Prosody of focus marking in Ewe. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 34(1): 1-46.

Güldemann, Tom. 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.

Fiedler, Ines. 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.

Submitted

Fiedler, Ines. To appear.
Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Kwa. A text-based study on Anii. Afrika und Übersee.

Prokhorov, Kirill.
Focus-marking and topicality in Mombo. Submitted to Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.

Prokhorov, Kirill.
Focalization particles in Bambara. Submitted to Mandekan.

Earlier publications

 2011 

Fiedler, Ines. 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.

Fiedler, Ines (with Christian Chiarcos, Mira Grubic, Andreas Haida, Katharina Hartmann, Julia Ritz, Anne Schwarz, Amir Zeldes and Malte Zimmermann). 2011.
Information structure in African languages: Corpora and tools. Language Resources and Evaluation 45(3): 3621-374.

Fiedler, Ines (with Anne Schwarz). 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 

Fiedler, Ines, Anne Schwarz and Brigitte Reineke (with Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann). 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.

Fiedler, Ines (with Anne Schwarz). 2010.
Informationsstruktur oder: Was es in der Grammatik zu entdecken gibt. CD-ROM. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (eds.). 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

Güldemann, Tom. 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.

Jacob, Peggy. 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.

Schwarz, Anne. 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 

Fiedler, Ines. 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.

Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz. 2009.
Focal aspects of the verb system of Lelemi. Journal of West African Languages, 57-73.

Morimoto, Yukiko. 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.

Schwarz, Anne. 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.

Schwarz, Anne. 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.

Schwarz, Anne. 2009.
Tonal focus reflections in Buli and some Gur relatives. Lingua 119: 950-972.

 2008 

Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz (with Manfred Krifka). 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.

Schwarz, Anne. 2008.
The syntax-pragmatics of Lelemi predicates. Afrika und Übersee 90, 133-158.

Jacob, Peggy (with Katharina Hartmann and Malte Zimmermann). 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 

Fiedler, Ines. 2007.
Expansion im Aja. In: Afrikanische Horizonte, ed. by Griefenow-Mewis, Catherine, 99-112. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Güldemann, Tom. 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.

Schwarz, Anne and Ines Fiedler. 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.

Fiedler, Ines. 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.

Schwarz, Anne. 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.