TY  - JOUR
A1  - Thuan, Tran
ED  - Grubic, Mira
ED  - Mucha, Anne
T1  - Lone contrastive topic constructions
BT  - a puzzle from Vietnamese
JF  - Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2
N2  - 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 (Büring 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.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92323
SP  - 52
EP  - 64
ER  -