Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of "discourse-new"

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 331-346

  Selkirk, Elisabeth O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrastive focus; F marking; G marking; Givenness; Prosody; Second occurrence focus

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349099128     PISSN: 12168076     EISSN: 15882624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ALing.55.2008.3-4.8     Document Type: Article

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