Notions of Focus Anaphoricity

Acta Linguistica Hungarica 55 (3-4):277--285 (2008)
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This article reviews some of the theoretical notions and empirical phenomena which figure in current formal-semantic theories of focus. It also develops the connection between “alternative semantics” and “givenness” accounts of focus interpretation.

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