Focus presuppositions
- 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.
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| Author: | Dorit Abusch |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112290 |
| URL: | http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_7abush.pdf |
| URL: | http://978-3-939469-88-9 |
| Parent Title (German): | Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 2007, 6 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2008/11/06 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2008/11/06 |
| Tag: | alternative semantics presupposition projection; focus; givenness; presupposition |
| First Page: | 109 |
| Last Page: | 124 |
| Source: | Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), 2007, 6, S.109-124 ; http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis06_7abush.pdf |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 207617430 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
