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This study concerns the interaction of 'focus' with the verbal system of Ejagham, an Ekoid Bantu language. In particular it concerns the multiple forms of the perfective and imperfective aspects. The Ejagham system differs from the tendency in Bantu systems. The verb forms in Ejagham have a 'constituent' focus form that sub-categorizes predicates ("verbs") with terms ("nps"), and an 'operator' focus form used whenever the verbal operator is within the scope of focus. Bantu languages commonly have a form used when the verbal complement falls within the scope of focus but another form for other cases. So Bantu languages tend to group predicates with verbal operators. In addition, Ejagham conflates assertive and contrastive focus, a distinction that is important in other Bantoid languages in the general vicinity of Ejagham but not in Ejagham.

African languages --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Intonation (Phonetics) --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative --- Phonetics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Pitch (Phonetics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Oral interpretation --- Discourse analysis --- Intonation --- Topic and comment

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In part I of this volume, experts on various language areas provide surveys of word stress/accent systems of as many languages in 'their' part of the world as they could lay their hands on. No preconditions (theoretical or otherwise) were set, but the authors were encouraged to use the StressTyp data in their chapters. Australian Languages (Rob Goedemans), Austronesian Languages (Ellen van Zanten, Ruben Stoel and Bert Remijsen), Papuan Languages (Ellen van Zanten and Philomena Dol), North American Languages (Keren Rice), South American Languages (Sergio Meira and Leo Wetzels), African Languages (Laura Downing), European Languages (Harry van der Hulst), Asian Languages (Harry van der Hulst and René Schiering), Middle Eastern Languages (Harry van der Hulst and Sam Hellmuth). There is an introductory chapter (Chapter 1) that will provide the reader with elementary terminology and theoretical tools to understand the variety of accentual systems that will be discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. Chapter 2 has a double function. It presents an overview of stress patterns in Australian languages, but at the same time it is intended to (re-)familiarize readers with the coding, terminology and theoretical ideas of the StressTyp database. Chapter 11 presents statistical and typological information from the StressTyp database. Part II of this volume contains 'language profiles' which are, for each of the 511 languages contained in StressTyp (in 2009), extracts from the information that is contained in the database. This volume will be of interest to people in the field of theoretical phonology and language typology. It will function as a reference work for these groups of researchers, but also, more generally, for people working on syntax and other fields of linguistics, who might wish to know certain basic facts about the distribution of word accent systems

Accents and accentuation. --- Emphasis (Linguistics) --- Prominence (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistics --- Semantics --- Language and languages --- Stress (Linguistics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Versification --- Accents and accentuation --- Stress --- Phonetics --- Word Accent, Language Typology, Corpus Linguistics.

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Despite a vocabulary that consists of only three words Yes, No and And, Chil acts as a powerful speaker in conversation. He does this, embedding his limited lexicon within larger contextual configurations in which different kinds of meaning making processes including prosody, gesture, sequential organization, and operations on his talk by his interlocutors create a whole that goes beyond any of its constitutive parts. This paper explores the role played by prosody in this process. It focuses on how Chil is able to build varied action that is precisely fitted to its local environment by using d

Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Phonology --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Linguistics --- Phonetics --- Phonology. --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Phonology

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A Theory of Stress and Accent (Studies in Generative Grammar)

Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Generative grammar. --- Accents and accentuation. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language and languages --- Stress (Linguistics) --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Versification --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Accents and accentuation --- Stress --- Derivation --- Grammar, Comparative

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Prosodic analysis (Linguistics). --- English language --- Spanish language --- English language --- Spanish language --- Music and language. --- Language and languages --- Versification. --- Optimality theory (Linguistics). --- Prosodie (Linguistique) --- Anglais (Langue) --- Espagnol (Langue) --- Anglais (Langue) --- Espagnol (Langue) --- Musique et langage --- Langage et langues --- Versification --- Optimalité, Théorie de l' (Linguistique) --- Prosodic analysis. --- Prosodic analysis. --- Versification. --- Versification. --- Rhythm. --- Analyse prosodique --- Analyse prosodique --- Versification --- Versification --- Rythme