{"pk":35194,"title":"Mùwe Ké Focus Structures","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The present study is an investigation of the information-structural notion of focus through the morphosyntax of focus structures in Mùwe Ké (Tibeto-Burman, Mugu, Nepal).  The focus structures mainly involve the obligatory marking of actors with the otherwise-optional ergative marker \n-gane/-gadiː\n and a preferred immediately preverbal position, both of which are shown to correlate with the notion of focus.  The research and analyses are based on a corpus of field data collected over three years in Nepal, including the Questionnaire on Information Structure (Skopeteas et al. 2006).  The paper is intended as a partner for and precursor to Archer (under review), which questions the notion of focus as a category and subsequently reanalyses the data presented here.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Information structure, focus, Mùwe Ké, Tibeto-Burman, Mugu, Nepal, differential argument marking, differential ergative marking, word order, preverbal position."}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00z2p5xw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Archer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-12-05T06:35:28Z","date_accepted":"2022-12-05T06:35:28Z","date_published":"2023-12-31T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/himalayanlinguistics/article/35194/galley/26196/download/"}]}