Morphological marking of contrast in Tima

Tima (Niger-Congo, Sudan) has two morphological means to express contrast: focus marking and selective marking. We take the distribution of both marking options and their interaction as evidence for a broad approach to contrast, the latter being a gradient phenomenon rather than a categorical one. W...

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Published in:Glossa
Main Authors: Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Laura Becker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5373/