The Expression of Information Structure -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- References -- Information structure marking in Sandawe texts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical preliminaries -- 3. Previous research on information structure marking in Sandawe -- 4. Information structure marking in Sandawe texts -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Appendices -- Topic and focus fields in Naki -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Brief overview of Naki sentential syntax -- 3. The encoding of information structure in Naki -- 4. Postverbal focalization -- 5. Analyzing postverbal focalization -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- The relation between focus and theticity in the Tuu family -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cleft constructions and contrastive term focus -- 3. Polyfunctional cleft constructions -- 4. Cleft constructions and entity-central theticity -- Abbreviations -- References -- Focus marking in Aghem -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Syntactic marking of focus (Watters 1979) -- 3. Morphological marking of focus on the verbal auxiliary (Anderson 1979) -- 4. Marking of focus in the noun phrase -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- On the obligatoriness of focus marking -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Focus-marking strategies in Tar B'arma -- 3. Obligatoriness of focus marking in Tar B'arma -- 4. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Focalisation and defocalisation in Isu -- 0. Introduction: Marking properties of informational status in Isu -- 1. Word order: Structural encoding of information value -- 2. Morphological encoding of information value -- 3. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Discourse function of inverted passives in Makua-Marevone narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Approach -- 3. Three construction types compared.

4. Inverted passive constructions in three selected narratives -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Topic-focus articulation in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Views on topic-focus articulation and word order variation in Berber -- 3. Taqbaylit -- 4. Tashelhit -- 5. Word order flexibility and discourse-configurationality over time -- Abbreviations -- References -- Focus in Atlantic languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formal marking of focus in the Atlantic languages -- 3. Focus: Uses and definition -- 4. Related features -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Topic and focus construction asymmetry -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Initial comparison -- 3. Main clause properties -- 4. Resumptive function -- 5. Modifiers in emphatic constituents -- 6. Discussion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Verb-and-predication focus markers in Gur -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Previous analyses -- 2. Theoretical framework and elicitation method -- 3. Focus system -- 4. The role of ME-particles in verb-and-predication focus -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Why contrast matters: Information structure in Gawwada (East Cushitic) -- 1. Generalities -- 2. Basic syntactic structure -- 3. Theoretical background -- 4. Topics -- 5. Topic-comment structures and the formal unmarkedness of focus in Gawwada -- 6. Thetic sentences and the focalization of new subjects -- 7. Marking contrast: =kka -- 8. Argument focus, again: Word-order change -- 9. Incorporation -- 10. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Focus and the Ejagham verb system -- 1. A typology of focus -- 2. The perfective and imperfective verbal forms in Western Ejagham -- 3. Scope and communicative point of focus relative to the ConstF forms -- 4. Generalizing on the use of the constituent and operator focus verb forms.

5. Tense, aspect and mood, and the pragmatic notion of focus -- 6. Concluding comments -- Abbreviations -- References -- Language index -- Subject index -- The series Typological Studies in Language.