Information structure

This section gives a preliminary overview of the ways to express information structure in Beng. I do not attempt to undertake a proper semantic analysis of the constructions in question, only providing their rough equivalents in English.Usually, a constituent F marked for its information structure...

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Julkaisussa:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/mandenkan,
Päätekijä: Paperno, Denis
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: Mandenkan 2015
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:This section gives a preliminary overview of the ways to express information structure in Beng. I do not attempt to undertake a proper semantic analysis of the constructions in question, only providing their rough equivalents in English.Usually, a constituent F marked for its information structure status is located before the rest of the sentence S. If F is a verb phrase, which has to take the form of nominalization when topicalized or focalized, compare (266), F is replaced in the main clau...