This comprehensive analysis describes the semantic, pragmatic and grammatical properties of the non-canonical and non-standard linguistic focus marker ‘so’. This study answers questions from diverse linguistic fields by combining empirical methods: is the focus marker a register-bound element? To which extent? And how does our language processing apparatus deal with phenomena of variation like this?
Kathleen Schumann
Fokusmarker Register Mentales Modell Pragmatikalisierung Focus marker register mental models pragmaticalization