TY  - CHAP
A1  - Selkirk, Elisabeth
T1  - Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of "discourse-new"
T2  - The notions of information structure / Caroline Féry (ed.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure (ISIS) ; Vol. 6
N2  - New evidence is provided for a grammatical principle that singles out contrastive focus (Rooth 1996; Truckenbrodt 1995) and distinguishes it from discourse-new “informational” focus. Since the prosody of discourse-given constituents may also be distinguished from discourse-new, a three-way distinction in representation is motivated. It is assumed that an F-feature marks just contrastive focus (Jackendoff 1972, Rooth 1992), and that a G-feature marks discoursegiven constituents (Féry and Samek-Lodovici 2006), while discoursenew is unmarked. A crucial argument for G-marking comes from second occurrence focus (SOF) prosody, which arguably derives from a syntactic representation where SOF is both F-marked and G-marked. This analysis relies on a new G-Marking Condition specifying that a contrastive focus may be G-marked only if the focus semantic value of its scope is discourse-given, i.e. only if the contrast itself is given.
KW  - contrastive focus
KW  - givenness
KW  - second occurrence focus
KW  - F-marking
KW  - G-marking
KW  - prosody
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10026
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112162
UR  - http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_8selkirk.pdf
SN  - 978-3-939469-88-9
SP  - 125
EP  - 146
ER  -