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Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1264-2
Paperback
328 pages
September 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Table of Contents
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1. Introduction.

2. Intonation and meaning.

3. Three degrees of association: quasi, free, and conventional.

4. Compositional analysis of focus.

5. Pragmatic explanations of focus.

6. Soft focus: Association with reduced material.

7. Lacking focus: Extraction and ellipsis.

8. Monotonicity and presupposition.

9. Exclusives: facts and history.

10. Exclusives: a discourse account.

11. Conclusion