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F-LTAG Semantics for Issues Around Focusing

verfasst von : Kata Balogh

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Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis in a Feature-based Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (F-LTAG) [9, 18] for deriving the semantic representations of various narrow focus constructions. Te paper presents an extension of the F-LTAG analysis by Balogh [3] based on the syntax-semantics approach by Kallmeyer & Romero [11] and the semantic-pragmatic analysis of focus by Balogh [2].

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Fußnoten
1
See e.g. Babko-Malaya [1].
 
2
https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-662-46906-4_5/337431_1_En_5_IEq16_HTML.gif requires, that the proposition that https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-662-46906-4_5/337431_1_En_5_IEq17_HTML.gif stands for is either equal to or scopes over the proposition that https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-662-46906-4_5/337431_1_En_5_IEq18_HTML.gif stands for.
 
3
To keep the examples easier, none of the following examples contain adjunction at the VP node, so in later examples I will skip the \(P\) features at the VP and S nodes.
 
4
In earlier versions of Inquisitive Semantics [7] these two notions were referred to as the Theme (question) and the Rheme (assertion).
 
5
Note, that certain details are different – e.g., the representation of proper names – between the InqB representation and a flat semantic representation. This technical detail will not be discussed any further in this paper.
 
6
Note, that \(?\phi \) is not a separate category in the syntax of the logical language, but it is defined in terms of disjunction as given above.
 
7
Note, that the language of InqB is used, where \(\exists x.\phi \) leads to a set of possibilities.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
F-LTAG Semantics for Issues Around Focusing
verfasst von
Kata Balogh
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46906-4_5