Research
Topic-focus
Selected publications
The following are selected publications that are related to the issue of information structure and clause structure, topic and focus within the clause and within the noun phrase, as well as the architecture of the left periphery within these two domains.
Books and Special Journal issues
Aboh, E. O., N. Corver, M. Dyakonova, and M. van Koppen. 2010. DP-internal Information Structure. Lingua special issue 120: 782-801.
Aboh, E. O., K. Hartmann, and M. Zimmermann. 2007. Focus strategies in Niger Congo and Afro-Asiatic. The Interaction of Focus and Grammar in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic. Berlin: Mouton.
Articles and book chapters
Aboh. E. O. 2010. C-type Negation Markers on the Right Edge. In Topics in Kwa Syntax. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 78. Springer. Dordrecht.109-139.
Aboh. E. O. 2009. Delete: A Phase-level Property. Theoretical Linguistics 35-2/3: 229-237.
Aboh, E. O. 2009. Clause Structure and Verb series. Linguistic Inquiry 40: 1-33.
Aboh, E. O. and M. Dyakonova. 2009. Predicate doubling and parallel chains . Lingua. 119: 1035-1065.
Aboh, E. O. 2007. Information Structuring Begins with the Numeration. Ms. University of Amsterdam, downloadable at LingBuzz: http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz
Aboh, E. O. 2007. Leftward Focus versus Rigthward Focus: the Kwa-Bantu Conspiracy. SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics 15: 81-104
Aboh, E. O. & M. Dyakonova. 2006. How multiple is multiple spell-out? Ms. University of Amsterdam.
Aboh, E. O. 2006. When predicates go fronting. ZAS Working Papers in Linguistics 46: 21-48.
Aboh, E. O. & R. Pfau. 2006. What’s a wh-word got to do with it? To appear in Benincà, P. & N. Munaro (eds.), The Cartography of CP. New York: Oxford University Press.
Aboh, E. O. 2006. Focused versus non-focus wh-phrases. To appear in E. Aboh, K. Hartmann & M. Zimmermann (eds.), Focus in African Languages. Berlin: Mouton
Aboh, E. O. 2006. Complementation in Saramaccan and Gungbe: the case of c-type modal particles. NLLT 24,1:1–55.
Aboh, E. O., R. Pfau & U. Zeshan. 2005. When a wh-word is not a wh-word: The case of Indian Sign Language. In Bhattacharya, T. (ed.), The Yearbook of South Asian languages and linguistics 2005. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 11–43.
Aboh, E. O. 2005. Deriving Relative and Factive constructions in Kwa. In W. Schweikert and N. Munaro (eds.), Contributions to the thirtieth Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. Cafoscarina, Venezia, 265–285.
Aboh, E. O. 2005. Object Shift, Verb Movement and Verb Reduplication. In Cinque, G & Kayne, R (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax. New York: Oxford University Press, 139 –177.
Aboh, E. O. 2004. The Morphosyntax of Complement-head Sequences: Clause Structure and Word Order Patterns in Kwa. New York: Oxford University Press.
Aboh, E. O. 2004. Snowballing movement and Generalized Pied-Piping. In Anne Breitbath and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Trigger. Berlin: Mouton, 15–47.
Aboh, E. O. 2004. Topic and Focus within D. Linguistics in The Netherlands 2004. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1-12.
Aboh, E. O. 2004. Left or Right? A view from the Kwa Peripheral Positions. In David Adger, Cécile De Cat, and George Tsoulas (eds). Peripheries: Syntactic Edges and their Effects. Studies in Natural Languages and Linguitic Theory 59: 165-189.
Aboh, E. O. 2003. Focus constructions across Kwa. In Cege Githiora, Heather Littlefield & Victor Manfredi (eds.) Kinyira njira! - Step firmly on the pathway! Trenton New Jersey: Africa World Press, 7-22.
