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Article: Information structuring in Akan question-word fronting and focus constructions
Title | Information structuring in Akan question-word fronting and focus constructions |
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Issue Date | 2006 |
Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. |
Citation | Studies in African Linguistics, 2006, v. 34 n. 2, p. 179 - 208 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Wh-question fronting and focus constructions III Akan have three structural characteristics in common: constituent fronting, introduction of a clitic morpheme after the fronted constituent, and pronoun resumption in a canonical clause position. In comparing these constructions to each other and to related canonical constructions, one is confronted with the question whether the same discourse-contextual information is consistently expressed in both constructions. Using the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar, we show that both whquestion fronting and focus constructions share representations in the constituent and functional structure. Considering the individual discourse-contextual information expressed in wh-question fronting and focus constructions, as compared to the discourse-contextual information expressed in the respective in situ and canonical clause counterparts, however, we show that a variance is drawn between them in the information structure. In a further constraint-based analysis, Optimality-Theoretic LFG is used to clarify the proposals made. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/90300 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Marfo, C | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Bodomo, AB | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-06T10:08:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-06T10:08:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Studies in African Linguistics, 2006, v. 34 n. 2, p. 179 - 208 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 2154-428X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/90300 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Wh-question fronting and focus constructions III Akan have three structural characteristics in common: constituent fronting, introduction of a clitic morpheme after the fronted constituent, and pronoun resumption in a canonical clause position. In comparing these constructions to each other and to related canonical constructions, one is confronted with the question whether the same discourse-contextual information is consistently expressed in both constructions. Using the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar, we show that both whquestion fronting and focus constructions share representations in the constituent and functional structure. Considering the individual discourse-contextual information expressed in wh-question fronting and focus constructions, as compared to the discourse-contextual information expressed in the respective in situ and canonical clause counterparts, however, we show that a variance is drawn between them in the information structure. In a further constraint-based analysis, Optimality-Theoretic LFG is used to clarify the proposals made. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Studies in African Linguistics | en_HK |
dc.title | Information structuring in Akan question-word fronting and focus constructions | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Bodomo, AB: abbodomo@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Bodomo, AB=rp01204 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 125076 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0039-3533 | - |