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  • Language Family: Gur
  • Topic #1: Focus
  • Topic #2: Particles
Dagbani focus particles: a descriptive s Dagbani focus particles: a descriptive study

This paper describes focus marking in Dagbani, a Gur language of Ghana, with emphasis on the particles that are used to mark focus. It presents evidence that contrary to previous analyses of Dagbani (e.g. Olawsky 1999, Issah 2008) the particles ka, n, la, and mi all mark contrastive focus in Dagbani. These particles mark a range of focus types including subject focus, non-subject focus, predicate focus and clausal focus. Part of the discussion is devoted to the need to distinguish between these particles and homophones that are a subject of confusion in the literature. The particles are also subjected to several tests of exhaustivity used in the literature to determine contrastive focus. The approach adopted here is mainly descriptive. The goal is to present the bare descriptive generalisations on these particles with little recourse to the detailed assumptions of any specific syntactic or semantic theoretical approach.

Cet article décrit le marquage du focus en dagbani, une langue Gur du Ghana, avec une emphase sur les particules utilisées pour marquer le focus. Il présente des preuves qui vont à l’encontre des analyses précédentes de dagbani (voir p.ex. Olawsky 1999, Issah 2008) en démontrant queles particules ka, n, la et mi  marquent toutes le focus contrastif en dagbani. Ces particules marquent une série de types de focus qui incluent le sujet focalisé, le focus des éléments qui ne sont pas sujets, le focus prédicatif et le focus propositionnel. Une partie de l’analyse concerne le besoin de distinguer ces particules de leurs homophones qui prêtent souvent en confusion dans la littérature. Ces particules ont été soumises dans l’article à plusieurs tests d’exhaustivité utilisés dans la littérature pour déterminer le focus contrastif. C’est sous une approche purement descriptive que le sujet a été abordé. Le but était en effet de présenter les généralisations descriptives saillantes de ces particules sans avoir recours à des hypothèses détaillées d’une approche théorique spécifique de syntaxe ou de sémantique.

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Author Fusheini Hudu
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