Contrastive topics decomposed
The analysis of contrastive topics introduced in Büring 1997b and further developed in Büring 2003 relies on distinguishing two types of constituents that introduce alternatives: the sentence focus, which is marked by a FOC feature, and the contrastive topic, which is marked by a CT feature. A non-c...
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Linguistic Society of America
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Semantics and Pragmatics |
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| Online Access: | http://semprag.org/article/view/1231 |