Lone contrastive topic constructions
- 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.
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| Author: | Tran Thuan |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92323 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 |
| Subtitle (English): | a puzzle from Vietnamese |
| Editor: | Mira Grubic, Anne Mucha |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Year of Completion: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release Date: | 2016/06/23 |
| First Page: | 52 |
| Last Page: | 64 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Collections: | Universität Potsdam / Sammelwerke (nicht forlaufend) / Proceedings of the Semantics of African, Asian and Austronesian Languages (TripleA) 2 / Beiträge |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerziell, Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 International |
