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Focus Fronting

Focus Fronting is a syntactic phenomenon in Old Norse grammar wherein a constituent bearing focused information is obligatorily moved to a preverbal position in the clause to fulfill information-structural requirements.

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On Multiple <i>Wh</i>-Fronting

Željko Bošković · Linguistic Inquiry · 2002 · 455 citations

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IP‐internal topic and focus phrases

K. A. Jayaseelan · Studia Linguistica · 2001 · 420 citations

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Contrastive Focus Reduplication in English (The Salad-Salad Paper)

Jila Ghomeshi, Ray Jackendoff, Nicole Rosen et al. · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2004 · 395 citations

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Left peripheral focus: mismatches between syntax and information structure

Gisbert Fanselow, Denisa Lenertová · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2010 · 289 citations · Full text

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<b>The dynamics of focus structure.</b> By Nomi Erteschik-Shir. (Cambridge studies in linguistics 84.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. 280.

Katalin É. Kiss · Language · 1999 · 285 citations

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    Ángel L. Jiménez‐Fernández

    Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

    3 publications · 112 citations

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    Silvio Cruschina

    University of Vienna, Austria

    3 publications · 243 citations

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    Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine

    National University of Singapore, Singapore

    3 publications · 57 citations

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    Daniel Büring

    University of Vienna, Austria

    2 publications · 84 citations

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    Katharina Hartmann

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

    1 publications · 57 citations

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  1. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    424 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    167 citations

  3. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    3 publications

    297 citations

  4. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    237 citations

  5. Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics

    Berlin, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    95 citations

  6. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    87 citations

  7. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    156 citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

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  1. Lingua

    11 publications · 556 citations

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  2. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

    7 publications · 1K citations

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  3. Language

    6 publications · 732 citations

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  4. Studia Linguistica

    5 publications · 653 citations

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  5. ZAS Papers in Linguistics

    5 publications · 270 citations

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