From copula to focus, vice versa, or neither?
This paper studies the system of non-verbal predication of Mano, a South Mande language, based on primary data, including elicited utterances and a corpus of spontaneous speech. The main analytical question that I address concerns the relationship between non-verbal predication and focus marking. I...
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Mandenkan, Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique Noire
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Mandenkan |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/mandenkan/3070 |