Until recently, it has been widely assumed that pragmatics is independent of the
computation of syntax and semantics. However, there is a movement in the direction that at …

This paper first tries to distinguish Contrastive Topic (CT) from non-contrastive Topic
marking. It further addresses the issue of how to represent the meaning conveyed by …

This dissertation investigates the syntax and semantics of two focus particles in Korean with
special reference to their scopal behavior. The two particles under consideration are the …

In recent studies, several authors have claimed that a contrastive topic (CT; also known as
topic-focus, contrastive focus, etc.) is morphologically marked in languages like Japanese …

This chapter attempts to establish Contrastive Topic (CT) and Contrastive Focus (CF) in
relation to how their alternatives are evoked via their focal components involved and …

Japanese has a scope inversion phenomenon by a Contrastive Topic (CTopic) marking that
is similar to the Korean Contrastive Topic marking see (see Lee, 2000) and the Topic-Focus …

The focus particle man 'only'in Korean shows different scopal behavior depending upon its
syntactic environment. This non-uniform scope pattern cannot be accounted for if the particle …

A Korean particle-(n) un is widely known as a topic and/or contrast marker. Despite this
seemingly well-established view on the meaning/function of-(n) un, however, its exact nature …

In this paper, we propose that a sentence like John _T ate broccoli _F should pragmatically
be interpreted as follows:(a) Focus should be interpreted exhaustively; John ate only …