This article deals with some aspects of negation in Buli, a Gur language spoken by the Bulsa people in Northern Ghana. Their language belongs to the Oti-Volta-branch of Northern Central Gur languages in which it forms one ...

The aim of this paper is to give further insight into the vowel harmonizing properties of Lelemi affixes as it has well-known for 40 years that "very many of the Kwa languages (...) have vowel harmony of (...) the CROSS-HEIGHT ...

Der Aufsatz möchte Funktion und Distribution von zwei Partikeln des Aja, can und henne, die dem Ausdruck des expansivcn Fokus dienen und der eulschen additiven Partikel auch entsprechen, untersuchen. Aja ist der Oberbegriff ...

The paper presents fi rst results of the documentation of Tuu languages regarding information structure, based on the analysis of coherent texts, partly supplemented by elicitated utterances. Unmarked clauses display a ...

This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages. Based on new empirical evidence from ...

This paper aims at presenting different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, a Guang language. We can differentiate between marked and unmarked focus strategies. The marked focus expressions are first syntactically characterized: ...

This article deals with some aspects of negation in Buli, a Gur language spoken by the Bulsa people in Northern Ghana.

This paper deals with the means for expressing the pragmatic category of focus in Yom, which is an Oti-Volta language of the Yom-Nawdem group spoken by about 74,000 people (Gordon 2005, online version) in the department ...