Intervention and focus in Asante Twi-gctid137041

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This paper concerns the distribution of wh-words in Asante Twi, which has both a
focus fronting strategy and an in-situ strategy. We show that the focusing and the
in-situ constructions are not simply equally available options. On the contrary,
there are several cases where the focusing strategy must be used and the in-situ
strategy is ungrammatical. We show that the cases in Asante Twi are
"intervention effects", which are attested in other languages, like German,
Korean, and French. We identify a core set of intervening elements that all of
these languages have and discuss their properties.  

http://home.uchicago.edu/~gkobele/files/KobeleTorrence06.pdf

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