“…Thus, in (1b) C’est Camille qui boit un martini , the focus element is Camille and the congruent (explicit) question is of the form Who is drinking a martini? Several authors note, however, that French relies more heavily on clefting due to prosodic constraints on the sentence initial position (Bourns, 2014; Carter-Thomas, 2009; Hamlaoui, 2007), making clefts the default strategy to answer subject focus. Pragmatically, clefts are also known to associate with a specific inference, exhaustivity, whereby the clefted element is interpreted as if under the scope of an exclusive expression like ‘only’ (Clech-Darbon et al, 1999; de Cat, 2007; Horn, 1981).…”