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Focus

Index of SIL publications on Focus listed by country.

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General works

• AUGUSTIN, MaryAnne, author. 2007. "Topic and focus in Swahili."  
• BAILEY, Nicholas A.; LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., authors. 1992. "The function of preverbal elements in independent clauses in the Hebrew narrative of Genesis."
• BUTH, Randall J., author. 1992. "Topic and focus in Hebrew poetry: Psalm 51."  
• CLIFTON, Deborah A.; CLIFTON, John M., editors. 2002. Comments on discourse structures in ten Turkic languages.
• DRY, Helen A., author. 1992. "Foregrounding: An assessment."  
• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 2009. "Malagasy clefts from a Western Malayo-Polynesian perspective: commentary on the paper by Hans-Martin Gärtner."
• LAW, Howard W., author. 1992. Focus shift problem.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• BERTHELETTE, John, author. 2004. Information structure in narrative texts in Byali (a Gur language of Benin).

Burkina Faso

• VALLETTE, René, author. 1988. "La focalisation en fulfulde."

Cameroon

• HYMAN, Larry M.; WATTERS, John R., authors. 1984. "Auxiliary focus."
• THWING, Rhonda Ann; WATTERS, John R., authors. 1987. "Focus in Vute."
• WATTERS, John R., author. 1979. "Focus in Aghem: a study of its formal correlates and typology, part 3."
• WATTERS, John R., author. 1979. Focus in Aghem: a study of its formal correlates and typology.

Côte d’Ivoire

• BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1986. "Focalisation et antifocus."
• BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1987. "La logique des focalisations - le cas du Toura."
• BENTINCK, Julie, author. 1979. "Un suffixe mystérieux en niaboua."
• MARCHESE, Lynell, author. 1983. "On assertive focus and the inherent focus nature of negatives and imperatives: Evidence from Kru."
• WERLE, J. M., author. 1976. "Remarques sur la structure d’information en bété (langue Kru de Côte d’Ivoire)."

Kenya

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2002. "Anaphora and focus in Digo."

Nigeria

• HOSKISON, James, author. 1975. Focus and topic in Gude.

Americas

Brazil

• BURGESS, Eunice, author. 1986. "Focus and topic in Xavante."  
• BURGESS, Eunice, author. 1987. "Foco e tópico em xavánte."  

Colombia

• COOK, Dorothy M.; LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., authors. 1983. "Los dominios de marcadores de enfoque en coreguaje."
• COOK, Dorothy M.; LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., authors. 1985. "Coreguaje: The domains of focus markers."  
• KINCH, Rodney A., author; GALEANO L., Luis G., translator. 1977. "El enfoque temático vs. el enfoque no temático en yuruti."  
• LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1990. Unmarked and marked instances of topicalization in Hebrew.

Mexico

• PIKE, Eunice V., author. 1962. "Mazatec focus."
• PIKE, Eunice V., author. 1969. "Language learning in relation to focus."
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1975. "Focus in English clause structure seen via systematic experimental syntax."  
• PIKE, Kenneth L., author. 1985. "Static, dynamic and relational perspective suggested in words and phrases."
• WARD, Michael, author. 1987. A focus particle in Quioquitani Zapotec.  

Panama

• GUNN, Robert D., author. 1976. "Some aspects of linking in Bocotá narrative discourse."

Peru

• STEWART, Anne M.; WISE, Mary Ruth, editors. 1981. Cohesión y enfoque en textos y discursos.  
• WISE, Mary Ruth, author. 1985. "Universales y técnicas de organización de la narrativa en algunas lenguas vernáculas latinoamericanas."

Asia

Azerbaijan

• CLIFTON, John M., author. 2009. Review of: Endoclitics and the origins of Udi morphosyntax, by Alice C. Harris.  

Indonesia

• BARR, Donald F., author. 1988. "Focus and mood in Daʼa discourse."
• BARR, Donald F., author. 1990. "Penggunaan afiks-afiks fokus dalam wacana penturan Bahasa Daʼa."
• BERG, René van den, author. 1996. "The demise of focus and the spread of conjugated verbs in Sulawesi."
• BUSENITZ, Robert L., author. 1987. "Pemarkah fokus dalam bahasa Balantak."
• BUSENITZ, Robert L., author. 1994. "Marking focus in Balantak."
• FRIBERG, Barbara, author. 1991. "Ergativity, focus and verb morphology in several South Sulawesi languages."
• HARTZLER, Margaret, author. 1986. Theme and focus in Sentani discourse.
• MARTENS, Michael P., author. 1988. "Focus or ergativity? Pronoun sets in Uma."
• MARYOTT, Kenneth R., author. 1977. "The semantics of focus in Sangihé."  
• MARYOTT, Kenneth R., author. 1998. "On the evolution of the clause analysis of Sangir."
• MEAD, David, author. 2002. "Proto Celebic focus revisited."
• QUICK, Philip A., author. 1997. "Active and inverse voice selection criteria in Pendau, a western Austronesian language."

Iran

• ROBERTS, John R., author. 2005. Rā in Persian and information structure.  

Malaysia

• BLOOD, Doris E., author. 1995. "Verbal focus in Lotud."
• BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 1988. "Problems in analyzing focus in the languages of Sabah."
• COHEN, Nancy H., author. 1999. Nabay verb morphology.  
• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1988. "Verbal focus in Kimaragang."

Nepal

• CAUGHLEY, Ross C., author. Available: 2011; Created: 1971. Some restrictions on focus in Chepang.
• TOBA, Sueyoshi, author. 1978. "Participant focus in Khaling narratives."  

Philippines

• BALLARD, D. Lee, author. 1974. "The semantics of Inibaloi verbal affixes."
• BARLAAN, Rodolfo R., author. 1986. Some major aspects of the focus system in Isnag.
• BARLAAN, Rodolfo R., author. 1999. Aspects of focus in Isnag.
• HALE, Austin; WENDEL, Dag, authors. 1979. "Eligibility for topic and focus in Kaagan-Kalagan."  
• LIGHTBODY, Arthur, author. 1984. "Eliminating the hocus-pocus of focus in Sangiré."  
• MACHLAN, Glenn; STALLSMITH, Glenn, authors. 2006. "The aN- agent focus affix in Minangali music terms."  
• MARYOTT, Kenneth R., author. 1977. "The semantics of focus in Sangihé."  
• MOREY, Virginia, author. 1964. "Distributional restrictions on co-occurrence of aspect and focus morphemes in Ata verbs."
• MOREY, Virginia, author. 1966. Attention, emphasis, and focus in Ata Manobo.
• PAYNE, Thomas E., author. 1994. "The pragmatics of voice in a Philippine language: actor-focus and goal-focus in Cebuano narrative."
• SHAND, Jean, author. 1964. "Categories and markers of tense, focus and mode in Ilianen Manobo."
• WANG, Peter, author. 1992. Towards a methodology for defining the choice of focus in Philippine languages.
• WEST, Anne, author. 1973. "The semantics of focus in Amganad Ifugao."
• WIENS, Hartmut, author. 1978. "Focus shift and tense shift: Highlighting and conflict in Limos Kalinga narrative discourse."  
• WIENS, Hartmut, author. 1979. "The semantic function of focus affixes in Limos Kalinga."

Russian Federation

• KOMEN, Erwin R., author. 2007. Focus in Chechen.  

Europe

Russian Federation

• KOMEN, Erwin R., author. 2007. Focus in Chechen.  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• CALLISTER, William, author. 1987. "How Austronesian focus works in the Misima language."
• DUBERT, Marjorie; DUBERT, Raymond, authors. Available: 2008; Created: 1978. Biangai focus.  
• JÄRVINEN, Liisa, author. 1988. "Focus marking in Mauwake."
• LITHGOW, David, author. 1971. "Change of subject in Muyuw."
• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 1981. "Anggor referential prominence."
• MAYERS, Marvin K.; RATH, Daniel D., editors. 1988. Nucleation in Papua New Guinea Cultures.  
• SCHLIE, Perry; SCHLIE, Virginia, authors. 1988. "Disarming a loaded patient."