Discourse strategies in Pulaar the use of focus

This paper uses the concept of discourse cohesion as a basis for looking at certain sentence emphasis patterns in Pulaar (Fula). In particular, four patterns of focus are examined, first syntactically and then pragmatically. Focus in Pulaar can be divided according to clefting and pseudo-clefting pa...

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Published in:Studies in African Linguistics
Main Author: Sonja Fagerberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: LibraryPress@UF 1983-08-01
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Online Access:https://ojs.test.flvc.org/sal/article/view/107528