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Publication details [#3066]
Engelkamp, Johannes, Hubert D. Zimmer and Pierre Leclère. 1982. Focusing and presupposition in the understanding of sentences. In Ny, Jean-François Le and Walter Kintsch, eds. Language and comprehension. North Holland. pp. 97–105. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
Subjectivization and clefting is examined from the point of view of focusing and presupposition. Their interaction with regard to both functions is given special attention. It is concluded that subjectivization in the context of cleft sentences has only a focusing function.