Focus presuppositions

Dorit Abusch

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Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

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This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus. It is argued that these examples are open to a different analysis using givenness theory. Overall, the analysis favors a weak semantics for focus not including an existential presupposition.

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