Focus Ambiguities

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In what follows I will discuss ambiguities related to focus and stress in German sentences. Some of these ambiguities will be typical instances of what is now widely called ‘focus projection’, a term which was introduced by T. HÖhle in his seminal paper of I982. Focus projection arises in phrases with specific ‘normal’ stress patterns and consists in the possibility of assigning to such phrases several focus–background structures (FBS), differing from each other in the size of the constituent in focus. For example, in example (1),

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