The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary
alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we call the focus …

In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel
component for question under discussion based discourse pragmatic theories thereby …

The main research question of this thesis concerns the relation between focus interpretation,
focus realization, and association with focus in the West Chadic language Ngamo …

Our goal in this chapter is to investigate some cross-linguistic data relating to
epistemological concepts. We will not be directly addressing the word know or its …

Verum focus has long been analysed as part of information structure, being accounted for
within a theory of focus as generation of alternatives on a polarity value. Recently, however …

The accent pattern known as verum focus is, as the term coined by Höhle (1992) suggests,
commonly understood as a focus accent on a covert operator verum that resides in the C …

Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked
morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking, which can capture …

In this paper, we examine the semantics of two types of constructions in Mandarin that are
widely believed to realize the emphatic effects, namely, verum shi and sentence-final de. It …

This thesis constitutes the first description and formal analysis of what are known as
'emphatic particles' in Wolof, an Atlantic language of the Niger-Congo family. Wolof is …

The paper provides arguments against the denotational approach to polarity focus (also
known as Verum), which treats it as a distinct denotation contributed by the dedicated …