Über gewisse Fälle von Assoziation mit Fokus

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“…In our judgement, Syntactic Structure remains undominated. There have been proposals in the literature, however, that seem to suggest that Syn tactic Structure can be overruled under certain conditions as well (see for discussion on this matter, Herburger, 1997;Eckardt, 1999;De Hoop and Sola, 1996;GeilfuB, 1995). Finally, we need to address the question of the role of intonation in the determination of the argument structure of a determiner.…”

“…Rooth (1992) advocates the view that this relevant set of alternatives, the so-called C-set, is constrained by the focus semantic value of the phrase, thus leaving room for pragmatic considerations to add further information. In De Hoop and Sola (1996), it is argued that the generalized union over the set of alternatives of a focussed constituent can be used to spell out the context set variable that is always part of the first argument of a determiner (see also Westerstahl, 1985;GeilfuB, 1995).…”