The focus marker in Kîîtharaka: Syntax and semantics

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 687-731

  Abels, Klaus ^a   Muriungi, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Accidental homophony; Bantu; Cyclicity; Exhaustivity; Focus; Late insertion; Left periphery

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649108596     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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