The expression of information structure : a documentation of its diversity across Africa

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Introduction / Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz

Information structure marking in Sandawe texts / Helen Eaton

Topic and focus fields in Naki / Jeff Good

The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family / Tom Güldemann

Focus marking in Aghem: syntax or semantics? / Larry M. Hyman

On the obligatoriness of focus marking: evidence from Tar B'arma / Peggy Jacob

Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu / Roland Kiessling

Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives / Oliver Kröger

Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber / Amina Mettouchi and Axel Fleisch

Focus in Atlantic languages / Stéphane Robert

Topic and focus construction asymmetry / Ronald P. Schaefer and Francis O. Egbokhare

Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur / Anne Schwarz

Why contrast matters: information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic) / Mauro Tosco

Focus and the Ejagham verb system / John R. Watters