Comparative Concept: focus marker (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
focus marker (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | focus marker |
| Assoziiert |
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Definition
expression by a separate morpheme of the information in an identificational construction that is the focus. Example: in Rendille ínam-é y-imi 'The BOY came', the suffix -é marks the Noun ínam- '(the) boy' as the focus. (Section 11.4.2)