This article presents a situation description production experiment investigating the interaction between syntax and information structure in Akan, a tone language that belongs to the Kwa branch of the Niger- Congo family spoken in Ghana. Information structure was elicited via context questions that put the object in narrow informational focus or narrow corrective focus while controlling for the tonal structure of the target word. Contrary to the prediction that corrective focus is marked by fronting and morphological marking of the focused constituent the data suggest that the in-situ strategy is the preferred one.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:4974 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Genzel, Susanne, Kügler, Frank |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen. Sonderforschungsbereich 632 - Informationsstruktur |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Grubic, Mira et al.: Linguistic Fieldnotes I: Information Structure in different African Languages. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2010 - (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 13). - S. 77 - 102 |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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