Topicalization in Berber: a typological perspective

Mena B. Lafkioui (1)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

This article addresses the phenomenon of topicalization from a typological perspective, both at the level of the Berber phylum and at the cross-linguistic level. It aims at providing Berber's principal linguistic properties and mechanisms of topicalization in comparison with cross-linguistic accounts so as to better understand the connection between syntax and information structure, which in Berber is subject to variation and to a complex interplay with prosody.

Mots clés: topicalization; information structure; typology; constituent order; Berber languages

Domaines: Linguistique

Mena B. Lafkioui. Topicalization in Berber: a typological perspective. STUF, 2014, 67 (1), pp.97-112. ⟨hal-01111657⟩