TY - JOUR AU - Grubic, Mira AU - Zimmermann, Malte PY - 2019/05/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Conventional and Free Association with Focus in Ngamo (West Chadic) JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 15 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/382 SP - 291-306 AB - <p>The paper discusses association with focus in Ngamo (West Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). We present evidence from thisnon-Indoeuropean language in favour of Beaver&amp; Clark (2008)’s claim that different kinds of focus-sensitive elements interact with the meaning of focus in different ways, namely conventional association with focus vs free association.We show that exclusive particles (<em>only</em>) in Ngamo, as in English, conventionally associate with focus. (Scalar-) Additive particles (<em>also, even</em>), by contrast, do not pattern like their English counterparts: Same as Q-adverbials, they are more free in their association behaviour, and can also associate with non-focused elements under certain conditions.</p> ER -