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ROA 1014-0209

Prosodically Motivated Focus In Hausa: An Optimality Theory Account

Joseph Lovestrand <joey_lovestrand at sil.org>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1014


Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to address the application
by Zimmermann of OT syntactic and prosodic constraints to
the Hausa language. It is found that subject movement is
motivated by the desire to align the subject with the head
of an intonational phrase. This can be accomplished in Hausa
by violating lower ranked syntactic constraints (i.e. Stay)
or perhaps an economy constraint against structures that
require multiple intonational phrases.

http://www.gial.edu/opal/Lovestrand-HausaFocus.pdf

Comments: Published online in Occasional Papers in Applied Linguistics by the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (http://www.gial.edu/opal/index.htm)
Keywords: information structure, focus, hausa, prosody
Areas: Syntax,Phonology,Semantics
Type: Manuscript

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=1014