Present progressive vis-à-vis predication focus in Bantu: a verbal category between semantics and pragmatics
By Tom Güldemann. 2003
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Subfields: Language and Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- The Zulu Conjoint/Disjoint Verb Alternation: Focus or Constituency? * (2006, background): “…verb form (in Tswana) provides new information could easily be taken to imply that the postverbal element is endowed with “new information focus”, or Güldemann (2003), who claims that the disjoint form in Zulu directly encodes predicate focus (a term which he defines to exclude the postverbal…”