Contrastive focus and emphasis

Acta Linguistica Hungarica

Volumn 55, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 347-360

  Zimmermann, Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrastive focus; Discourse expectability; Emphasis; Focus alternatives; Grammatical marking

Indexed keywords

EID: 53449092334     PISSN: 12168076     EISSN: 15882624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ALing.55.2008.3-4.9     Document Type: Article

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