Collaborative Research Centre 632 “Information Structure”

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

Publications

Recent publications

Fiedler, Ines and Schwarz, Anne (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

Fiedler, Ines. 2010.
Poster: Predicate-centered focus types: A sample-based typological study in African languages. (PDF)

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 (Typological Studies in Language 91), eds. Fiedler, Ines and Anne Schwarz, 69-94. Amsterdam: 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 (Typological Studies in Language 91), eds. Fiedler, Ines and Schwarz, Anne, 287-314. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

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, eds. Petter, Margarida Tadonni and Mendes, Ronald Beline, 263-278. São Paulo: Humanitas.

Submitted

Fiedler, Ines. Accepted.
Attributive possession and the alienability split in Gbe. Proceedings of the 19th Afrikanistentag, 8-10 April, 2010, Mainz.

Fiedler, Ines. Accepted.
Predication Focus in Gbe. Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL), August 17-21, 2009. Cologne, Germany.

Fiedler, Ines. In press.
Verb Focus in Aja. Proceedings of the 26th West African Linguistics Congress (WALC), July 28 - August 3, 2008, Winneba, Ghana.

Fiedler, Ines.
Focus Constructions in Anii. Submitted to Journal of West African Languages.

Fiedler, Ines and Jannedy, Stefanie. Under review.
The Prosody of Focus Marking in Ewe. Submitted to Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.

Schwarz, Anne. In press.
What is it about? The TOPIC in Buli. Proceedings of the 26th West African Linguistics Congress (WALC), July 28 - August 3, 2008, Winneba, Ghana.

Schwarz, Anne. In press.
The Syntax of Lelemi Predicates. Afrika und Übersee.

Earlier publications

 2009 

Chiarcos, Christian, Fiedler, Ines, Grubic, Mira, Haida, Andreas, Hartmann, Katharina, Ritz, Julia, Schwarz, Anne, Zeldes, Amir and Zimmermann, Malte. 2009.
Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and tools. In Proceedings of EACL 2009. Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages, March 31, 2009. Athens (Greece).

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, held at Korea University in Seoul, on July 21-26, 2008. 295-308. Seoul: The Linguistic Society of Korea.

Fiedler, Ines, Hartmann, Katharina, Reineke, Brigitte, Schwarz, Anne and Malte Zimmermann. 2009.
Subject Focus in West African Languages. In Information Structure. Theoretical, Typological and Experimental Perspectives, eds. Zimmermann, Malte & Féry, Caroline, 234-257. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fiedler, Ines and Schwarz, Anne. 2009.
Focal Aspects of the Verb System of Lelemi. Journal of West African Languages.

Schwarz, Anne. 2009.
How many Focus Markers are there in Konkomba? In Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, eds. Masangu Matondo, McLaughlin, Fiona and Potsdam, Eric, 182-192. Somerville, MA. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Schwarz, Anne. 2009.
Tonal Focus Reflections in Buli and some Gur Relatives. Lingua 119: 950-972.

 2007 

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

Fiedler, Ines. 2007.
Focus Expressions in Foodo. In Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 8, Working Papers of the SFB 632, eds. Ishihara, Shinichiro, Jannedy, Stefanie and Schwarz, Anne, 97-114. Potsdam: University of Potsdam.

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, eds. Aboh, Enoch O., Hartmann, Katharina and Zimmermann, Malte, 83-111.Trends in Linguistics – Studies and Monographs 191. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schwarz, Anne and Fiedler, Ines. 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, eds. Aboh, Enoch, Hartmann, Katharina and Zimmermann, Malte, 267-286. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schwarz, Anne. 2007.
The Particles lé and lá in the Grammar of Konkomba. In Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure 8, Working Papers of the SFB 632, eds. Ishihara, Shinichiro, Jannedy, Stefanie and Schwarz, Anne, 115-139. Potsdam: University of Potsdam.