Shifting the focus: from static structures to the dynamics of interpretation
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| adam_text | SHIFTING THE FOCUS
FROM STATIC
STRUCTURES
TO THE DYNAMICS
OF INTERPRETATION
Daniel Wedgwood
University of Edinburgh, UK
ELSEVIER
Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford
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CONTENTS
Preface xiii
1 Language and Meaning 1
1 1 Pragmatics and the study of grammar 1
111 Competence and performance in theory and in method 3
112 Pragmatics and the dynamicisation of grammar 7
113 Focus and theory at the interfaces 8
1 2 Semantics and the interpretation of natural languages 12
121 Fundamentals 12
122 Inference and semantics 16
123 Pragmatic contributions to propositional semantics 17
124 Pragmatics and the assumption of compositionality 21
1 3 Consequences of compositionality: illustrations from domain restriction 27
131A comparability restriction in exclusive readings 28
132 Domain restricting indexicals 33
1 4 Semantics: what it means 37
1 5 Summary 38
2 Relevance Theory and Implications for Linguistic Structure 41
2 1 Relevance Theory 42
2 2 Some misconceptions about RT 48
221 RT as a reduction of Gricean pragmatics 48
222 Practical falsifiability 50
23A different perspective on language structure 52
231 Encoded meaning as constraints on inference 52
232 Inference in the course of processing 55
2 4 Syntax: static structures versus instructions for
interpretation 57
241 Static syntax is unnecessary 58
vii
viii Shifting the Focus
242 Abstraction and the accessibility of the object of study 62
2 5 Grammar from a parsing perspective 67
251 Well-formedness without syntactic representations 67
252 The argument from production and parsing 68
2 6 Formal and informal analysis 70
2 7 Summary 72
3 The Hungarian Data 75
3 1 Overview 75
3 2 The data 75
321 The basic positions of the Hungarian sentence 75
322 Immediately pre-verbal position 77
323 The interpretation of focus 79
324 Verbal modifiers 81
325 Other PV elements 84
3 3 The focus position: syntactic analyses 85
331 Single position analyses 85
332 The verb movement analysis 89
333 Independent movement to multiple PV positions 91
3 4 Summary: looking beyond conventional syntactic
analysis - 93
4 Focus and Grammar 95
4 1 Overview 95
4 2 The broader notion of focus 96
421 The meaning of focus 96
422 Focus and the encoded/inferred distinction 98
423A dynamic, RT approach to English 102
424 The general meaning of focus (and presupposition) 104
4 3 The nature of focus position foci 106
431 There is no simple focus position 106
432 Narrow and broad focus 107
433 Exhaustivity: are there two kinds of focus? 110
4 4 Encoded versus inferred exhaustive focus 112
441 The case against inferred exhaustivity 113
442 The significance of the argument 116
4 5 Exhaustivity as an inference in context 116
451 Exhaustivity as an unmarked reading 117
Contents ix
452 Dependence on (psychological) context 118
453 Alternatives emerge from context 119
454 Different contexts; different kinds of exhaustivity 121
455 Non-exhaustive narrow foci are linguistically marked 124
456 The iV-cleft translation 127
457 Quantity implicature 130
458 Quantity implicature in RT 132
4 6 The failure of encoded focus: the absence of
exhaustivity 135
4 7 Narrow focus and the presupposition of eventualities 138
471 The costs and benefits of presupposed eventualities 143
472 Non-exhaustive narrow foci and eventualities 143
4 8 Summary 145
Focus and Quantifier Distribution 149
5 1 Overview 149
5 2 Quantificational projections and procedures 150
521 Szabolcsi (1997b) 150
522 Against the PredOp/Focus distinction 154
523 The apparent difference 156
524 Numerals, narrow focus and scalar implicature 159
5 3 Constraints on TP and QP 168
531 The monotonicity constraint 168
532 Witness set representations and information structure 170
5 4 Constraints on PV 171
541 Proportionality and PV 172
5 5 The apparent counterexamples 177
551 Counterexample 1: a complex determiner 178
552 Counterexample 2: complex QNP-intemal information structure 179
553 Counterexample 3: a different kind of proportionality 181
554 Proportionals in PV and the idea of counting 183
5 6 Contrastive focus on non-PV quantifiers 184
5 7 Summary 185
Dynamic Structured Meanings: Predication and Information Structure 187
6 1 Overview : 187
6 2 Focus and predication 189
621 Focus and focus frame as predicate and logical subject 189
x Shifting the Focus
622 Main predication 191
623 Basic inferences over main predicates 192
6 3 Eventualities and structured meanings 194
631 Eventuality-based semantics 195
632 Herburger (2000): structured eventualities 197
6 4 Making structured meanings dynamic: epsilon terms 199
641 The creation of prepositional forms 199
642 The epsilon operator 201
643 The epsilon operator with event variables 203
6 5 Hungarian syntax and main predication 206
6 6 Simple worked examples 210
661 Topiocomment 210
662 Narrow focus 213
663 Two readings of main predicate verbs 215
6 7 Summary 217
7 Verbal Modifiers and Main Predication 219
7 1 Overview 219
7 2 Verbal prefix particles and resultatives 221
7 3 Why the VM, not the verb, is the unmarked main
predicate 229
731 VMs as unmarked main predicates: empirical support 235
7 4 Other VMs 236
741 Bare nominals 236
742 Adverbs 241
743 Locatives 247
7 5 Summary 252
8 Aspectual Constructions and Negation 255
8 1 Overview 255
8 2 The existential/evidential and progressive
constructions 256
821 The abstract operator analysis 257
822 The AspP analysis 258
8 3 The main predication analysis 260
831 Explaining the progressive construction 260
832 Explaining the existential construction 265
8 4 Negation 268
Contents xi
841 Negation and main predication 271
8 5 The homogeneity of negation 273
851 Constituent negation 273
852 Simple sentential negation 275
853 Focus nem V 277
854 Why nem is pre-verbal 279
855 Negation and the interpretive relevance of lexicalisation 281
8 6 Summary 282
9 Summary and Conclusions 285
9 1 Theoretical concerns 285
9 2 Empirical illustrations 286
9 3 Implications and further research 290
Bibliography 295
Index 307
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