NDLI: A note on contrast

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Katzir, Roni
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The semantics of association with focus and the pragmatic conditions governing the appropriateness of focus in discourse are usually taken to depend on focus alternatives. According to a common view, these alternatives are generated by a permissive process. This permissive view has been challenged by Michael Wagner, who has noted that certain alternatives are systematically excluded from consideration. Wagner describes a more restrictive view, on which only contrastive alternatives are relevant for association with focus and for the appropriateness of focus in discourse. I use recent work on the role of contradiction to show that the standard, permissive view derives the same results as the contrast-based view for the basic cases. These basic cases involve a contradiction that prevents us from using them to distinguish the two approaches. I show that when this contradiction is eliminated, evidence of non-contrastive alternatives emerges, supporting the permissive standard view over the restrictive contrast-based one.
Starting Page	333
Ending Page	343
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0925854X
Journal	Natural Language Semantics
Volume Number	21
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1572865X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-03-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Focus alternatives Contrast Innocent exclusion Contradiction Exhaustivity Semantics Syntax Philosophy of Language
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Linguistics and Language

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