Focus Constructions in Meskwaki (Fox)

In this paper I examine types of focus in the nonconfigurational language Meskwaki (Fox), using as a framework for description Lambrecht's configurational approach to information structure, particularly his three-way typology of predicate focus, argument focus, and sentence focus. This typology of focus sheds light on the role played by various word order patterns in Meskwaki, but presents some challenges for recent proposals regarding an i-structure projection within an LFG model.