@article{Thuan2016,
  author    = {Thuan, Tran},
  title     = {Lone contrastive topic constructions},
  series = {Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2},
  editor    = {Grubic, Mira and Mucha, Anne},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92323},
  pages     = {52 -- 64},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {It has been long agreed by formal and functional researchers (primarily based on English data) that contrastive topic marking, namely marking a constituent as a contrastive topic via the B-accent/the rising intonation contour) requires the co-occurrence of focus marking via the A-accent/the falling intonation contour (see Sturgeon 2006, and references therein). However, this consensus has recently been disputed by new findings indicating the occurrence of utterances with only B-accent, dubbed as lone contrastive topic (B{\"u}ring 2003, Constant 2014). In this paper, I argue, based on the data in Vietnamese, that the presence of lone contrastive topic is just apparent, and that the focus that co-occurs with the seemingly lone contrastive topic is a verum focus.},
  language  = {en}
}