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Publication details [#14155]

Kennedy, Becky. 1999. Focus constituency. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (9) : 1203–1230.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accent2 | argument | focus | predicate | subject

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

A discussion of focus projection from the subject in English sentences with regard to mediation by the linguistic structure, formation of subject-verb predicates serving as focus constituents, undetermined focus domains, subject accents, and predicate combinations.