Frontmatter -- Contents -- Focus and grammar: The contribution of African languages -- Nuclear stress in eastern Benue-Kwa (Niger-Congo) -- Investigating prosodic focus marking in Northern Sotho -- Preverbal objects and information structure in Benue-Congo -- Focus strategies and the incremental development of semantic representations: Evidence from Bantu -- Ex-situ focus in Kikuyu -- Focus in the Force-Fin system: Information structure in Cushitic languages -- Coptic relative tenses: The profile of a morpho-syntactic flagging device -- Identificational operation as a focus strategy in Byali -- Exhaustivity marking in Hausa: A reanalysis of the particle nee/cee -- Narrative focus strategies in Gur and Kwa -- Focused versus non-focused wh-phrases -- Backmatter.

The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.

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