Marking Contrastive Topics in a Topic Shift Context: Contrastive Adverbs versus Emphatic Pronouns

This paper is about two competing marking strategies for contrastive topics in a topic shift context in French: emphatic pronouns and contrastive adverbs. We analyse the choice between these markers in one specific syntactic position, i.e. when they occur between the subject and the finite verb, in...

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Published in:	Discours
Main Authors:	Jorina Brysbaert, Karen Lahousse
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Presses universitaires de Caen 2022-12-01
Subjects:	diaphasic variation contrastive topic topic shift contrastive adverb emphatic pronoun corpus analysis
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/discours/12189