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...

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Published in:	Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 527 - 572
Main Author:	Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2025
Subjects:	Focus (Linguistics) Semantics Topic & comment (Grammar) Lexicology Comparative linguistics
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