The languages of the world exhibit a range of formal phenomena (eg accenting, syntactic
reordering and morphological marking) that are commonly linked to the information …

The paper puts forward a discourse-semantic account of the notoriously evasive
phenomena of contrastivity and emphasis. Based on new evidence from Chadic, it is argued …

Question words show striking similarities among the languages of the world: They are
typically morphologically related to indefinites and they are typically, if not universally …

Abstract The prosody of Papuan Malay, spoken in the easternmost provinces of Indonesia, is
not fully described and understood. The limited work available suggests that phrase prosody …

The present article offers a detailed study of focus strategies in some Chadic languages,
paying special attention to the focus system of Tangale. It discusses two dimensions of …

This study analyzes the grammar of Shupamem, a language that belongs to a
geographically defined group of languages known as' Grassfields Bantu languages' …

The particle" lah" in the aspect of discourse is an affirmative word that has various roles in
utterance. The term discourse particle is used to describe the existence of pragmatic …

The article provides an overview of the grammatical realization of focus in four West Chadic
languages (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). The languages discussed exhibit an intriguing …

The main research question of this thesis concerns the relation between focus interpretation,
focus realization, and association with focus in the West Chadic language Ngamo …

We concentrate here on the information structure relations topic and focus, and on their
contrastive versions (contrastive focus and contrastive topic). All four depend crucially on …