4.1.4. Emphatic focus
Emphatic focus is used in LSC in order to intensify an item. The item that is under emphatic focus scope is generally part of a broad focus, and it is usually doubled in order to emphasize it over the rest of the focalized elements. The element doubled is usually placed in final position, as illustrated in the examples below.
a) frog [escape want escape]F
‘Frog wants to ESCAPE.’
b) [obsession where frog where]F
‘(He) was obsessed about WHERE the frog was.’
(examples a-b extracted and recreated from the LSC corpus, cited in Navarrete-González, 2016: 28)
In example (a) the verb escape is part of a VP-focus, and it is doubled in final position. In example (b) the wh-particle where is part of an all-new focus sentence and it is also doubled at the end of the sentence.