Focus, presuppositions, and discourse restrictions

Joachim Jacobs

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In their stimulating paper Bart Geurts and Rob van der Sandt (B&V) argue that whenever focusing gives rise to a background λx[ϕ(x)], there is a pre-supposition to the effect that λ[ϕ(x)] holds of some individual. This is their Background-Presupposition Rule (BPR). B&V show that the BPR in con-

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1992A Compositional Semantics for Multiple Focus Constructions 1999Presuppositions and Pronouns 1992Informationsstruktur und Grammatik 1988Fokus-Hintergrund-Gliederung und Grammatik 1991Focus Ambiguities

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