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Exhaustive Focus Marking in Akan

Reginald Akuoko Duah

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• This paper reopens the discussion on focus marking in Akan (Kwa,Niger-Congo) by examining the semantics of the so-called focus markerin the language. It is shown that the so-called focus marker expressesexhaustivity when it occurs in a sentence with narrow focus. The studyemploys four standard tests for exhaustivity proposed in the literatureto examine the semantics of Akan focus constructions (Szabolsci 1981,1994; É. Kiss 1998; Hartmann and Zimmermann 2007). It is shown thatalthough a focused entity with the so-called focus marker nà isinterpreted to mean ‘only X and nothing/nobody else,’ this meaningappears to be pragmatic.

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https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8374