A New Approach to Contrastive Topic: Partition Semantics and Pragmatics

A New Approach to Contrastive Topic: Partition Semantics and Pragmatics

The purpose of the current work is to propose a more comprehensive approach to Contrastive Topic (henceforth, CT) than the existing ones. In the literature, there have been two approaches to CT proposed: one is to take CT as an information-structural discourse-regulating notion on a par with focus and the other is to analyze CT as an focus-sensitive operator with its inherent semantic and pragm...

Semantics and Pragmatics — A New Journal ∗

We introduce the principles behind the launch of a new journal in semantics and pragmatics and outline the journal’s processes and policies. S&P is a peer-reviewed open access journal. The main content is high quality, original, selfcontained research articles on the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages. While our target audience is primarily academic linguists, we expect to also publi...

a new approach to credibility premium for zero-inflated poisson models for panel data

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Topic Abstraction as the Source for Nested Alternatives: A Conservative Semantics for Contrastive Topic

In this paper, I argue for a new semantics for contrastive topic (CT) constructions that relies on a TOPIC ABSTRACTION operator to generate nested alternative structures. Compared to previous accounts like Büring 2003, my proposal is conservative in that it neither appeals to a new type of F-marking (cf. Büring’s CT-marks) nor stipulates any discourse conditions particular to the CT constructio...

Contrastive Topic and/or Contrastive Focus