Focus, presuppositions, and discourse restrictions
Joachim Jacobs · Theoretical Linguistics · 2004
In their stimulating paper Bart Geurts and Rob van der Sandt (B&V) argue that whenever focusing gives rise to a background λx[ϕ(x)], there is a pre-supposition to the effect that λ[ϕ(x)] holds of some individual. This is their Background-Presupposition Rule (BPR). B&V show that the BPR in con-