Browsing Department of Humanities & Social Sciences by Author "Klaus, Abels"

Now showing items 1-2 of 2

    • The focus marker in Kîîtharaka: Syntax and semantics 

      Muriungi, Peter; Klaus, Abels (2008-05)
      This paper investigates a morpheme central to the clausal syntax of Kîîtharaka (SVO, Bantu, E54, Kenyan). The first sections of the paper offer a careful description of three functions of this morpheme, which marks information ...

    • The focus particle in Kiitharaka 

      Klaus, Abels; Muriungi, Peter (2006)
      In this paper we argue that Kˆ ıˆ ıtharaka in situ and ex situ object focus constructions are exhaustive. Sentences with a preverbal focus marker are argued to be nonexhaustive. Ourconclusionsarebasedonfelicityinmention- ...