Non-restrictive Adjective Interpretation and Association with Focus

This paper investigates a relationship between the non-restrictive interpretation of attributive adjectives, known in French as an épithète de nature, and non-compositional theories of focus interpretation. It is shown that a non-restrictive interpretation, in French and in English, arises not as a...

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Format: Journal article
Published: 2005
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