... Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pages 337–344,Sydney, July 2006.c2006 Association for Computational LinguisticsLocal constraints on sentence markers and focus ... clausescontain a sentence marker – generally one of‘waa’, ‘baa’ and ‘ayaa’ for main clauses, or oneof in for subordinate clauses. There are twolinked exceptions to this rule: relative clauses, and ‘waxa’-clefts.Somali ... phenomenon which is rather less com-mon.We start by considering nominal sentences. So-mali allows for scarenominal sentences consistingof just a pair of NPs. This is a fairly commonphenomenon,...