Focus Semantics is a theoretical framework within sentence meaning that specifies how semantic interpretation is shaped by the informational prominence of particular constituents, distinguishing it from other frameworks by its emphasis on the truth-conditional and discourse-functional effects of focused elements.
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Intervention Effects Follow from Focus Interpretation*
Sigrid Beck · Natural Language Semantics · 2006 · 527 citations
Focus: Linguistic, cognitive, and computational perspectives
Journal of Pragmatics · 2001 · 361 citations
Contrastive focus and emphasis
Malte Zimmermann · Acta Linguistica Hungarica · 2008 · 314 citations
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University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
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8 publications
1.2K citations
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
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9 publications
584 citations
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics
Berlin, Germany
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4 publications
96 citations
Radboud University Nijmegen
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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53 citations
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
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Max Planck Society
Munich, Germany
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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, United States
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- Journal of Semantics
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- Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory
SALT · 6 publications · 342 citations
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