Focus in EkeGusii (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

This paper deals with how focus, which is mapped to a Focus Phrase(FP), is encoded in simplex EkeGusii declarative sentences. Quantifiers and arguments realized in the subject position seem to be sructurally ambiguos between a an in situ and ex situ focus marking, however in this paper the ex situ pattern in which all the focssed constructions in the Determiner Phrase are moved to the CP, which is a criterial position, is preffered. The main verb and the predicate complements (objects, oblique, adverbials etc.) in EkeGusii are displaced from the complement of the v’P position to a FocP in the CP, or to a hijacked/stranded position, a FocP within the IP Phase, imediately before the verb (IBV) position. The focus displacement patterns to the two stipulated positions are monosemous, that is, they receive the same interpretation and obey the principles of focus projection and the minimal link condition by responding to the operation attract, with the exception of the in situ case...

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