Edmond Ossoko
Biographic Data
| ID | 8965541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmond Ossoko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Ossoko |
| SIGNATURE | OSSOKO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Yaoundé I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Morphosyntactic Marking of Focus: Subject–Object Asymmetries in Bantu
In many African languages, there exists a type of subject–object asymmetry by which subject focus must be expressed by A-bar movement to a morphologically marked left peripheral position whereas object focalisation can be expressed by movement and morphological marking in the left periphery, or in situ. In this article, we discuss and analyse this structural asymmetry in the Bantu languages Basaá and Mmaala. We argue that overt and covert movemen…
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Morphosyntactic Marking of Focus: Subject–Object Asymmetries in Bantu
In many African languages, there exists a type of subject–object asymmetry by which subject focus must be expressed by A-bar movement to a morphologically marked left peripheral position whereas object focalisation can be expressed by movement and morphological marking in the left periphery, or in situ. In this article, we discuss and analyse this structural asymmetry in the Bantu languages Basaá and Mmaala. We argue that overt and covert movemen…
Bantu languages (1 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (1 works) · Covert (1 works) · Focus (optics) (1 works) · Movement (music) (1 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (1 works) · Object (grammar) (1 works) · Subject (documents) (1 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (1 works)