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The article discusses focus marking and its interpretation across different languages, emphasizing that there is no direct correlation between formal features and focus. It proposes a unified semantico-pragmatic perspective on focus, relating it to alternatives and possible worlds, and explores how focus aids in managing common ground during discourse. The authors argue that focus introduces a set of privileged possible worlds that facilitate the interpretation of utterances without necessarily imposing exi

Author

Daniele Maghini

Language

EN