Focus intervention, multiple association, and the unity of focus and wh alternatives.
I develop a framework for the compositional semantics of focus association that differs minimally from Rooth (Nat Lang Semant 1:75–116, 1992) in letting focus-sensitive operators optionally pass up evaluated focus alternatives. My proposal is informed by prior work on various complex constructions i...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 527 - 572 |
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