TY  - CONF
A1  - Sauerland, Uli
T1  - Don't interpret focus : why a presuppositional account of focus fails, and how a presuppositional account of givenness works
T2  - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung
N2  - This paper advances a purely presuppositional analysis of intonation. I first show that a inspiring recent article by Geurts and van der Sandt (Theoretical Linguistics, 2004) that pursues the same goal cannot account for multiple foci. Then, I show that if it is assumed that destressed rather than focussed material is semantically marked, multiple foci are accounted for correctly.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11836
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1127445
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/sauerland/proceedings/sub05.pdf
VL  - 9
SP  - 370
EP  - 384
PB  - Dep. of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, Univ. of Oslo
CY  - Oslo
ER  -