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Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning

ISBN: 978-1-4443-0133-5
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328 pages
January 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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1. Introduction.

2. Intonation and Meaning.

3. Three degrees of association.

4. Compositional analysis of focus.

5. Pragmatic Explanations of Focus.

6. Association with Reduced Material.

7. Extraction and Ellipsis.

8. Monotonicity and Presupposition.

9. Exclusives: facts and history.

10. Exclusives: a discourse account.

11. Conclusion