Focus Domains and Information-Structure

Tracy Holloway King
Stanford University/Xerox PARC

Proceedings of the LFG97 Conference

University of California, San Diego

Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Editors)

CSLI Publications
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/

• Introduction
• Structurally Encoded Discourse Functions
• Focusing F-structure Heads
  • Yes-no Questions
  • ``Contrastive'' Focus
  • Sub-Constituent Focus
• Towards a Solution
  • I-Structure
  • Core PRED Values
  • Sample Analyses
• Conclusions
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