Dake-wa : Exhaustifying Assertions
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چکیده
Following the structure meaning approach (c.f. [3,4]), I argued in [5] that the prosodic peak of Contrastive-marking creates a partition of the asserted proposition into B (background) and F (Focus). The morphological wa-marking then introduces the Con operator that takes the structured meaning as its argument and yields a conventional implicature. The Contrastive-marked sentence presupposes that there exists a stronger alternative to the asserted proposition (2–b), and conventionally implicates that the speaker considers the possibility that the stronger alternative is false (2–c).
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