Verum focus is verum, not focus: cross-linguistic evidence

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  • who: Daniel Gutzmann from the University of Cologne, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne, DE have published the Article: Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
  • what: The aim of this paper is to argue that the term verum focus, as commonly used, does not denote what its compositional interpretation suggests; the phenomena it is used to label are actually not instances of focus. Besides English and German, the languages the authors investigate are the following. This is obviously the case for German and English (ignoring the do-insertion), as this . . .

     

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