Mats Rooth
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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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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.
Key concepts: Focus (optics), Linguistics, Interpretation (philosophy), Semantics (computer science), Epistemology, Formal semantics (linguistics), Connection (principal bundle), Computer science