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Publication details [#23822]

Atlas, Jay David. 1991. Topic/comment, presupposition, logical form and focus stress implicatures: the case of focal particles 'only' and 'also'. Journal of Semantics 8 (1-2) : 127–147.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implicature | topic | truth-conditional semantics

Journal WWW

www3.oup.co.uk/semant/

Annotation

Only a combination of truth-conditional semantics, gricean implicatures and topic constraints on the structure of semantic representation manages to explain the contribution of focus particles such as 'also' and 'only' to the entailments and implications of the sentences in which they occur.