Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 241-264

  Hartmann, Katharina ^a   Zimmermann, Malte ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

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