Interpreting focus: Presupposed or expressive meanings? a comment on Geurts and van der Sandt

Theoretical Linguistics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 123-136

  Kratzer, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 21744434590     PISSN: 03014428     EISSN: 16134060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/thli.2004.002     Document Type: Article

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