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Focus Presuppositions
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Abusch, Dorit Presuppositions, Focus |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presuppostion. Presuppostion 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 presuppostion. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/abusch/isis-2007-abusch.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Addresses (publication format) Precipitating Factors Review [Publication Type] |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |