This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in its broadest sense, originating from a conference held in 1994 in Schloss Wolfsbrunnen in Germany.
This book presents a collection of papers on the issue of focus in its broadest sense. While commonly considered as being related to phenomena such as presupposition and anaphora, focusing is much more widely spread, and it is this pervasiveness that the current collection addresses. The work loosely originates from a conference held in 1994 in Schloss Wolfsbrunnen in Germany, although only a small subpart of the proceedings papers presented are included here. The contributed papers have been reworked for the current volume to present a coherent study of the subject.
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This collection of papers examines the theoretical, psychological and descriptive approaches to focus.
List of Contributors ix(2) Preface ix Peter Bosch Rob van der Sandt Part I Surface Realization of Focus 3(102) 1 Contrastive Stress, Contrariety, and Focus 3(15) Kees van Deemter 2 The Processing of Information Structure 18(25) Carsten Gunther Claudia Maienborn Andrea Schopp 3 On the Limits of Focus Projection in English 43(13) Carlos Gussenhoven 4 Informational Autonomy 56(26) Joachim Jacobs 5 Subject-Prodrop in Yiddish 82(23) Ellen F. Prince Part II Semantic Interpretation of Focus Phenomena 105(142) 6 What Is the Alternative? The Computation of Focus Alternatives from Lexical and Sortal Information 105(16) Peter I. Blok Kurt Eberle 7 The Treatment of Focusing Particles in Underspecified Discourse Representations 121(21) Johan Bos 8 Topic 142(24) Daniel Buring 9 Focus with Nominal Quantifiers 166(21) Regine Eckardt 10 Topic, Focus, and Weak Quantifiers 187(26) Gerhard Jager 11 Focus, Quantification, and Semantics-Pragmatics Issues 213(19) Barbara H. Partee 12 Association with Focus or Association with Presupposition? 232(15) Mats Rooth Part III The Function of Focus in Discourse 247(116) 13 Discourse and the Focus/Background Distinction 247(21) Nicholas Asher 14 Domain Restriction 268(25) Bart Geurts Rob van der Sandt 15 On Different Kinds of Focus 293(13) Jeanette K. Gundel 16 Stressed and Unstressed Pronouns: Complementary Preferences 306(16) Megumi Kameyama 17 Discourse Linking and Discourse Subordination 322(14) Kjell Johan Saebo 18 Position and Meaning: Time Adverbials in Context 336(27) Henriette de Swart Name Index 363(3) Subject Index 366
