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grammarinfstruc [2012/06/25 23:52] malte [Ideas for presentations / topics for discussion] |
grammarinfstruc [2012/07/20 13:41] (current) edgar [The focus-accent side: F-Q is fixed.] |
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| If we assume with Beaver & Clark that the associate of the exclusive particle 'only' must be in focus, the focus of the utterance should be the direct object 'John', but the direct object 'John' in (1B) is not the direct answer to the explicit question under discussion in (1A). | If we assume with Beaver & Clark that the associate of the exclusive particle 'only' must be in focus, the focus of the utterance should be the direct object 'John', but the direct object 'John' in (1B) is not the direct answer to the explicit question under discussion in (1A). | ||
| In order to save the strict mapping hypothesis one would have to assume that (1B) answers some implicit question to be accomodated in the discourse structure. | In order to save the strict mapping hypothesis one would have to assume that (1B) answers some implicit question to be accomodated in the discourse structure. | ||
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| + | For discussion: [[grammarinfstruc-disc1 : first discussion ]] | ||
| Another example illustrating the same problem is: | Another example illustrating the same problem is: | ||
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