In this short paper we present a so far unnoticed syntactic constraint on contrastive focus-reduplication (CR), a phenomenon that restricts the semantics of the reduplicated element to a prototypical meaning (but has other uses as well): The CR construction cannot be modified. In the case of nominal CR, this means that adjectival modification is blocked, as in *black COFFEE-coffee. We present data from English and German to support our claim and highlight how earlier accounts fail to capture the syntactic restriction. We then provide a sketch of an analysis couched with a Cartographic framework, tentatively proposing that CR results either (i) from cyclical-movement of phrasal material through the specifiers of functional projections into t...
In Romance, Focus Fronting (FF) is generally related to a contrastive or corrective function. In thi...
Successful language comprehension often requires comprehenders to infer contrastive focus alternativ...
This paper addresses the problem of how to restrict the set of alternatives evoked by focus to obtai...
In this short paper we present a so far unnoticed syntactic constraint on contrastive focus reduplic...
and Language 6, 78-90. This paper sets forth the phenomenon of Contrastive Reduplication (CR) in Eng...
Abstract. This paper sets forth the phenomenon of Contrastive Reduplication (CR) in English relevant...
PACLIC 21 / Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea / November 1-3, 2007conference pape
CF-reduplications refer to three different levels of a category: the prototype of a category, the su...
Contrastive focus reduplication (CR) is a type of reduplication in English which picks out a prototy...
The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement of a co...
Previous eye-movement studies have shown that listeners establish referents in sentences as soon as ...
In this article the notions of old or presupposed vs. new information have been discarded for the de...
This paper explores the information structure of VP-Anaphora constructions in English, Spanish and G...
Focus is regularly treated as a cross-linguistically stable category that is merely manifested by di...
Syntax published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article looks at constructions involving optional mov...
In Romance, Focus Fronting (FF) is generally related to a contrastive or corrective function. In thi...
Successful language comprehension often requires comprehenders to infer contrastive focus alternativ...
This paper addresses the problem of how to restrict the set of alternatives evoked by focus to obtai...
In this short paper we present a so far unnoticed syntactic constraint on contrastive focus reduplic...
and Language 6, 78-90. This paper sets forth the phenomenon of Contrastive Reduplication (CR) in Eng...
Abstract. This paper sets forth the phenomenon of Contrastive Reduplication (CR) in English relevant...
PACLIC 21 / Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea / November 1-3, 2007conference pape
CF-reduplications refer to three different levels of a category: the prototype of a category, the su...
Contrastive focus reduplication (CR) is a type of reduplication in English which picks out a prototy...
The most debated syntactic reflex that is typically associated with contrast is the movement of a co...
Previous eye-movement studies have shown that listeners establish referents in sentences as soon as ...
In this article the notions of old or presupposed vs. new information have been discarded for the de...
This paper explores the information structure of VP-Anaphora constructions in English, Spanish and G...
Focus is regularly treated as a cross-linguistically stable category that is merely manifested by di...
Syntax published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This article looks at constructions involving optional mov...
In Romance, Focus Fronting (FF) is generally related to a contrastive or corrective function. In thi...
Successful language comprehension often requires comprehenders to infer contrastive focus alternativ...
This paper addresses the problem of how to restrict the set of alternatives evoked by focus to obtai...