TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bevacqua, Luca
A1  - Scheffler, Tatjana
T1  - Form variation of pronominal it-clefts in written English
BT  - a corpus study in Twitter and iWeb
JF  - Linguistics vanguard
N2  - Clefts are well-studied as a construction which induces emphasis on its clefted referent. However, little is known about the distribution of different stylistic forms of it-cleft variants. We report on a corpus study mining data from Twitter, targeting sentences clefting a pronoun in English. We examine the following features: case and syntactic role of the clefted pronoun, contraction of the copula, choice of complementiser and use of emphasis markers. The results show systematic associations between these features. A further comparison between the Twitter dataset and data from iWeb, a corpus of general-use web language, shows significant differences in levels of emphasis and formality, positioning Twitter language in the middle of the conceptual orality spectrum.
KW  - clefts
KW  - corpus study
KW  - English
KW  - emphasis
KW  - computer-mediated communication
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0066
SN  - 2199-174X
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zimmermann, Malte
A1  - De Veaugh-Geiss, Joseph P.
A1  - Tönnis, Swantje
A1  - Onea, Edgar
T1  - (Non-)exhaustivity in focus partitioning across languages
JF  - Approaches to Hungarian
N2  - We present novel experimental evidence on the availability and the status of exhaustivity inferences with focus partitioning in German, English, and Hungarian. Results suggest that German and English focus-background clefts and Hungarian focus share important properties, (É. Kiss 1998, 1999; Szabolcsi 1994; Percus 1997; Onea & Beaver 2009). Those constructions are anaphoric devices triggering an existence presupposition. EXH-inferences are not obligatory in such constructions in English, German, or Hungarian, against some previous literature (Percus 1997; Büring & Križ 2013; É. Kiss 1998), but in line with pragmatic analyses of EXH-inferences in clefts (Horn 1981, 2016; Pollard & Yasavul 2016). The cross-linguistic differences in the distribution of EXH-inferences are attributed to properties of the Hungarian number marking system.
KW  - clefts
KW  - definite pseudoclefts
KW  - Hungarian focus
KW  - exhaustivity
KW  - experimental evidence
KW  - semantics-pragmatics interface
Y1  - 2020
VL  - 16
PB  - John Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Patterson, Clare
A1  - Esaulova, Yulia
A1  - Felser, Claudia
T1  - The impact of focus on pronoun resolution in native and non-native sentence comprehension
JF  - Second language research
KW  - clefts
KW  - discourse-level cues
KW  - focus
KW  - focus-sensitive particles
KW  - information structure
KW  - non-native speakers
KW  - pronoun resolution
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317697786
SN  - 0267-6583
SN  - 1477-0326
VL  - 33
SP  - 403
EP  - 429
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -