Lars Konieczny
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lars Konieczny plays a role.
Article
How alternatives are created: Specialized background knowledge affects the interpretation of clefts in discourse When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 115–146 | Chapter
2022 Standard theories of focus expressed by cleft structures, for instance (Beaver & Clark 2008; Krifka 2007), assume that the motivation for the use of focus is discourse relevance: focus establishes an answer to the question under discussion (Roberts 2004: 216). This account, however, lacks a theory… read more