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SUMMARY:How languages signal highlights using mismatches as methodology - 
 Dr Jenneke van der Wal\, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:How do you indicate what is most important in your message? In
  English you can use intonation: "We're going to DARWIN College". Many Afr
 ican languages\, however\, have fascinating other ways of highlighting the
  focus of the sentence. For example\, Luganda uses a reduces form of the n
 oun:\n\nYagula e-bitabo 'He bought books'\nYagula _-bitabo 'He bought BOOK
 S'\n\nBut how can we know whether this means 'surprisingly he bought books
 ' or 'books and nothing else'? And is that meaning baked into the grammar\
 , or is it something we infer from context? Come along and learn how other
  languages signal highlights\, using mismatches as methodology. 
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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