Focussing properties, or the trap of first order

Anna Szabolcsi

doi:10.1515/thli.1983.10.1-3.125

Focussing properties, or the trap of first order

Anna Szabolcsi

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A proposal for the focussing of term phrases in Hungarian is tested against the case of ‘bare singulars’ – which, at the first sight, appear impossible to accomodate. An alternative derivation is suggested for their case, according to which those sentences actually have the common noun part of a split term phrase in focus. It is argued that a general, compositional treatment of the relevant examples can only be given in a second order context dependent framework.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	125-146
Number of pages	22
Journal	Theoretical Linguistics
Volume	10
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/thli.1983.10.1-3.125
State	Published - 1983

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