LTAG Semantics of Focus
Olga Babko-Malaya · 2004
* I would like to thank Maria-Isabel Romero, Aravind Joshi, and all participants of the XTAG meetings for discussions and numerous suggestions, as well as anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. All remaining errors are mine. This paper presents LTAG semantics of focus and focus-sensitive quantifiers which adopts alternative semantics of focus (Rooth 1985 and subsequent work). It proposes that fo-cused lexical items make its contribution at the level of elementary trees, so that each elementary tree is associated with two seman-tic representations: its ordinary semantic rep-resentation and its focus representation. Based on the semantic framework, discussed in Kallmeyer and Joshi 2003 and Kallmeyer and Romero 2004, the paper develops a composi-