In all the examples in section 3, the main problem was that the arguments of the verb were included in the scope of the focus when the verb was focused. This problem is also found with non-verbal elements which have argument structures, although these are not discussed here. Instead of focusing the entire PRED, including its argument structure, just the basic meaning of the PRED should be focused. Kaplan and Maxwell 1996 refer to this value as PRED FN. For example, the verb `read' has the PRED and PRED FN values in (19).
(19)
By stripping off the arguments of the PRED and hence not
projecting the argument structure into the i-structure, many of the
above problems can be solved, as will be been in the next
section.
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