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Focus-Marking in Akan
Boadi, L. A.
Linguistics, 140, 5-57, Nov 74
This paper examines form and meaning of a class of simple sentences in which various constituents are brought into focus by the speaker. The Akan language is used, and the syntactic processes, or focus-marking, required to derive surface structures of the sentences are examined. (CK)
Descriptors: Akan, Function Words, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Surface Structure, Syntax
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