Formal correlates of focussing in Kimatuumbi

Many African languages have a system of grammatical focusing which pragmatically highlights certain elements of a sentence. Such systems of focus often have significant consequences in the syntax and morphology of languages, in that selection of a particular type of focal morphology prevents syntact...

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Autor principal:	David Odden
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Lenguaje:	EN FR
Publicado:	LibraryPress@UF 1984
Materias:	focus pragmatics Kimatuumbi syntax Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:505ed20f586640a4804a0df9f41075962021-11-19T03:55:29ZFormal correlates of focussing in Kimatuumbi10.32473/sal.v15i3.1075130039-35332154-428Xhttps://doaj.org/article/505ed20f586640a4804a0df9f41075961984-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107513https://doaj.org/toc/0039-3533https://doaj.org/toc/2154-428XMany African languages have a system of grammatical focusing which pragmatically highlights certain elements of a sentence. Such systems of focus often have significant consequences in the syntax and morphology of languages, in that selection of a particular type of focal morphology prevents syntactic rules from applying (or forces syntactic rules to apply). This paper investigates the focusing system of one Bantu language, Kimatuumbi. It is argued that the optimal account of Kimatuumbi focus is to allow the syntactic rules to apply blindly and to filter out the unacceptable conflicts in focus via a pragmatic filter.David OddenLibraryPress@UFarticlefocuspragmaticsKimatuumbisyntaxPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENFRStudies in African Linguistics, Vol 15, Iss 3 (1984)
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description	Many African languages have a system of grammatical focusing which pragmatically highlights certain elements of a sentence. Such systems of focus often have significant consequences in the syntax and morphology of languages, in that selection of a particular type of focal morphology prevents syntactic rules from applying (or forces syntactic rules to apply). This paper investigates the focusing system of one Bantu language, Kimatuumbi. It is argued that the optimal account of Kimatuumbi focus is to allow the syntactic rules to apply blindly and to filter out the unacceptable conflicts in focus via a pragmatic filter.
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title	Formal correlates of focussing in Kimatuumbi
title_short	Formal correlates of focussing in Kimatuumbi
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Formal correlates of focussing in Kimatuumbi

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