Der Fokusmarker 'so': Empirische Perspektiven auf Gebrauch und Verarbeitung eines Ausnahmeelements

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?