Towards a Fine-Grained Theory of Focus

This paper investigates the roles of focus, arguing that such a notion is too wide and can\ud be applied to several phenomena. I show that focus needs to be further specified for (at least) another\ud feature and is therefore made of smaller primitive traits. These can combine to create bundles of\ud features, which give rise to the several types of foci we know. Moreover, these features are subject\ud to parametrization and can thus account for cross-linguistic differences