Publications

Publication details [#9712]

Verhagen, Arie. 1979. Focus, core grammar and sentence adverbials in Dutch. In Velde, Marc Van de and Willy Vandeweghe, eds. Sprachstruktur, Individuum und Gesellschaft: Akten des 13. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Gent 1978, Band 1. M. Niemeyer. pp. 143–152.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

focus | sentence adverbial | stress | word order

Language as a subject

Dutch

Annotation

It is argued that focus interpretation is a pragmatic process (for which the position of main stress, adverbial position, etc., are limiting factors) rather than one to be situated in a core grammar.