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The Meaning of Focus Particles - A Comparative Perspective

 

Focus particles--even, only, also, merely--play an important role in English in various syntactic and semantic domains such as coordination, focusing, emphatic reflexives, concessive constructions, and quantification. The syntactic properties of these expressions pose numerous problems for current syntactic frameworks and the highly context-dependent and subjective nature of their meaning presents a challenge for semantic theories.



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Tags: syntactic, semantic, Focus, nature, subjective, Meaning, Particles