Different Alternatives for Topics and Foci: Evidence from Indefinites and Multiple WH We explore alternative sets in contrastive constructions
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We explore alternative sets in contrastive constructions and argue that different information structural units can come with different alternative sets, more specifically, the alternatives coming with (contrastive) topics can differ from the ones coming with (contrastive) foci. This is surprising for some accounts of contrastive topics (e.g. Büring 2003) and calls for an analysis of alternative formation that takes into account the specifics of topics and foci. Our test case are elliptical structures with indefinites on the one hand, and wh-phrases on the other. (1) is a gapping sentence with indefinites:
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