4.1.5. Focus doublings
As we have seen in the previous section, focus doubling is used in LSC in order to mark emphasis [PRAGMATICS 4.1.4].
a) [go together cinema go]F
‘(We) went to the cinema together.’
b) ix1 save, [no want fine write want.not]F
‘I was safe, (the policeman) didn’t want to write the fine.’
c) [obsession where frog where]F
‘(He) was obsessed about where the frog was.’
d) ix3 order wine ix3
‘HE has ordered wine.’
(examples a-d extracted and recreated from the LSC corpus, cited in Navarrete-González, 2016: 28)
This type of construction may occur with modals, verbs, temporal signs, negative signs, quantifiers, nouns, wh-elements, and pronouns as shown in the examples above.