1 Quantificational contrastive topics with verum/falsum focus

The paper investigates a problem related to the distribution of quantificational determiners as contrastive topics in Hungarian sentences containing a verum/falsum focus. It is argued that the reason why certain sentences with the above structure turn out to be ill-formed is that their intended truth-conditional interpretations are in contradiction with the presuppositions introduced by the contrastive topic. Although this strategy is essentially the same as that proposed by Büring, D., 2003, On d-trees, beans, and B-accents, Linguistics and Philosophy 26, 511-545, it is shown that the well- or ill-formedness of the relevant Hungarian examples does not follow without extra assumptions from the way Büring defines the presuppositions of contrastive topics, and therefore an alternative definition is put forth