Horst Lohnstein

List of John Benjamins publications for which Horst Lohnstein plays a role.

Article

Lohnstein, Horst 2018 Verum focus, sentence mood, and contrastThe Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches, Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff (eds.), pp. 55–88 | Chapter
Verum focus is a phenomenon which results from accentuation of a specific component (finite verb, complementizer, relative or wh-element) in the left peripheral position of a clause. It invokes the effect of emphasizing the expression of truth of a proposition as Höhle (1988; 1992), who coined the… read more