Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa

Focus Strategies in African Languages: The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 267-286

  Schwarz, Anne ^a   Fiedler, Ines ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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