TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abusch, Dorit
T1  - Focus presuppositions
N2  - 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.
KW  - focus
KW  - presupposition
KW  - alternative semantics presupposition projection
KW  - givenness
Y1  - 2007
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19663
ER  -