This volume provides a guide to what we know about the interplay between prosody-stress,
phrasing, and melody-and interpretation-felicity in discourse, inferences, and emphasis …

This dissertation develops a theory of contrastive topics (CTs)—what they mean, and how
they are realized. I give a compositional semantics for CT constructions, built on the idea that …

The high degree of internet penetration and its social (and linguistic) effects evidently
influence how people, and especially the highly susceptible younger generations, use …

The paper explicates the notions of topic, contrastive topic, and focus as used in the analysis
of Hungarian. Based on distributional criteria, topic and focus are claimed to represent …

Previous processing studies have shown that constituents that are prosodically marked as
focus lead to an activation of alternatives. We investigate the processing of constituents that …

This dissertation aims at contributing to the understanding of the various ways predicative
relationships are encoded in natural language. The theoretical goal is to provide evidence …

The paper proposes a syntactic and semantic analysis of Double Negation (DN). It is shown
that there are two types of DN. Strong DN is the result of a Focus construction that involves a …

This paper studies the expression of emphatic positive polarity in Hungarian, providing
evidence for an affirmatively specified polarity projection in the left periphery, PolP. The …

It is a commonly accepted view in the Hungarian linguistic literature that sentence structure
is determined by information structure, viewed as a phrase structure theoretic interpretation …

In this dissertation I proposed a new, context-based analysis of focusing in the framework of
Inquisitive Semantics (2008). The logical system of Groenendijk's framework is introduced …