LTAG Semantics of Focus
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This paper presents LTAG semantics of focus and focus-sensitive quantifiers which adopts alternative semantics of focus (Rooth 1985 and subsequent work). It proposes that focused lexical items make its contribution at the level of elementary trees, so that each elementary tree is associated with two semantic representations: its ordinary semantic representation and its focus representation. Based on the semantic framework, discussed in Kallmeyer and Joshi 2003 and Kallmeyer and Romero 2004, the paper develops a compositional analysis of focus representations, and extends this analysis to focusing adverbs and adverbs of quantification.
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