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- Title
The Wolof argument-focus constructions as copulaless clefts.
- Authors
Bourdeau, Corentin
- Abstract
In Wolof (Niger-Congo), focus is expressed morphosyntactically via specific focus constructions. This article deals with two of them, namely the subject-focus and the complement-focus constructions. I propose to analyse them as copulaless cleft constructions of the form focus | topic, that is, constructions in which the focus and the topic are juxtaposed. In such clefts, the topic of the sentence is expressed by means of a noun phrase which is headed by the definite article la when the focus corresponds to the syntactic object, and by the morpheme a when the focus corresponds to the syntactic subject of the sentence.
- Subjects
NOUN phrases (Grammar); THESIS statements (Rhetoric); MORPHEMICS
- Publication
Journal of African Languages & Linguistics, 2023, Vol 44, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0167-6164
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/jall-2023-2011