TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wiese, Heike
T1  - So as a focus marker in German
T2  - Linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
N2  - This paper discusses a hitherto undescribed usage of the particle so as a dedicated focus marker in contemporary German. I discuss grammatical and pragmatic characteristics of this focus marker, supporting my account with natural linguistic data and with controlled experimental evidence showing that so has a significant influence on speakers' understanding of what the focus expression in a sentence is. Against this background, I sketch a possible pragmaticalization path from referential usages of so via hedging to a semantically bleached focus marker, which, unlike particles such as auch 'also'/'too' or nur 'only', does not contribute any additional meaning.
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37097
SN  - 0024-3949
VL  - 49
IS  - 5
SP  - 991
EP  - 1039
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
CY  - Berlin
ER  -