Focus Presuppositions
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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.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007