Focus Marking and Topicality in Mombo

Prokhorov, K.

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Автор: Prokhorov Kirill
Журнал: Africana Linguistica
Том: 24
Год издания: 2018
Издательство: Royal Museum for Central Africa
Местоположение издательства: Belgium
Первая страница: 139
Последняя страница: 159
DOI: 10.2143/AL.24.0.3285495
Аннотация: Mombo, a Dogon language of Mali, uses several focus constructions to distinguish between different entities under the scope of focus. These constructions involve the use of special verb morphology and serious changes in the clause structure. Each verbal aspectual category comes in four forms or 'series' that are used to distinguish between different types of focus. The clause structure changes with the introduction of a marked focused constituent, which can be placed in the position immediately before the verb (IBV). On one hand Mombo focus constructions can be ranked according to their relative markedness by counting the marked morphosyntactic features each of them shows. On the other hand each focus construction can be charaterized by relative topicality of the entity under the scope of focus which is seen as relative likebility of the entity to act as a topic. This paper aims to explain the distribution of the focus constructions in Mombo througth the relative topicality of the entity under the scope of focus a particular construction is used to single out. It claims that Mombo focus-marking system follows a principle that prescibes the use of a more marked construction to focalize a more inherently topical entitiy and vice versa.
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