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This work deals with focus-making in Somali. The so-called sentence particles
waa, baa (ayaa) and waxaa realize in almost every
independent affirmative sentence of this East-Cushitic language different
types of focus. The author investigates this problem in two interrelated
aspects: synchrony (on the material of non-clichйized sentences) and
diachrony (on the material of proverbial structures). Particular
consideration is given to proverbs in the Present Comparative, Past
Independent and other archaic tenses, which do not co-occur with sentence
particles. The book is meant for linguists and paremiologists, that is
researchers in the field of proverbs, sayings and other types of folk clichй.
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