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In:Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Edited by Marco García García and Melanie Uth
[Studies in Language Companion Series 201] 2018
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Chapter 1
Introduction

Core issues of focus realization in Romance

 | University of Cologne
 | University of Cologne
Published online: 28 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.201.01uth
Abstract
Despite numerous theoretical approaches and empirical analyses, it is not entirely clear how different focus types and constructions are realized and interpreted in individual Romance languages. Due to the complexity of this linguistic area, an interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic approach seems most appropriate for exploring the topic further. This introductory article gives an overview of the core problems related to focus realization in Romance, such as methodological incongruences, differences regarding the conceptualization of focus categories, and nonobservance of diatopic variation. Moreover, it gives an outline of the present volume and situates the contributions with respect to the aforementioned issues.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methodology
  • 3.Focus categories
  • 4.Diatopic variation
    • 4.1Syntactic variation
    • 4.2Prosodic variation
  • 5.Outline of the volume
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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