TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abusch, Dorit
T1  - Focus presuppositions
T2  - Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 2007, 6
N2  - This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus. It is argued that these examples are open to a different analysis using givenness theory. Overall, the analysis favors a weak semantics for focus not including an existential presupposition.
KW  - focus
KW  - presupposition
KW  - alternative semantics presupposition projection
KW  - givenness
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10041
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112290
UR  - http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_7abush.pdf
UR  - 978-3-939469-88-9
SP  - 109
EP  - 124
ER  -