Annotating the Interaction between Focus and Modality: the case of exclusive particles
Amália Mendes, Iris Hendrickx, Agostinho Salgueiro, Luciana Ávila · 2013
We discuss in this paper a proposal to integrate the annotation of contexts with focus-sensitive expressions (namely the Portuguese exclusive adverb só ‘only’) in a modality scheme. We describe some properties of contexts involving both exclusive particles and modal triggers and discuss how to integrate this with an existing annotation scheme implemented for European Portuguese. We present the results of the application of this annotation scheme to a sample of 100 sentences.