Topics:

1. Two semantic frameworks for focus: structured meaning and alternative semantics.

   readings:

   1. Manfred Krifka. 2001. For a structured meaning account of questions and answers. In C. Fery and W. Sternefeld, eds. Audiatur Vox Sapientia. A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. pp. 287--319.
   2.Mats Rooth. Focus. 1996. In Shalom Lappin, ed. The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory.London: Blackwell. pp.271-298.

2. Focus-movement versus alternative semantics: islands, multiple foci, 2nd occurrence focus, focus-"binding".

   Reading for January 22, 2007:

   1. Manfred Krifka. 2006. Association with Focus. In V. Molnar and S. Winkler, eds. The Architecture of Focus. Berlin, NY: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 105--136.
   

   Reading for January 29, 2007:

   1. Michael Wagner. 2006. Association by Movement. Evidence from NPI-Licensing. To appear in Natural Language Semantics.
   

3. Focus, wh-, intervention effects

   readings:

   1. Beck 2006 Natural Language Semantics
   2. Eckardt 2006 SuB

4. The crosslinguistic syntax of focus

   readings:

   1. readings on Hungarian
   

   • Kata Balogh. 2006. Exhaustivity operator(s) and Hungarian focus structure. In Proceedings of Ninth Symposium on Logic and Language
   • Julia Horvath. 2007. Separating "Focus Movement" from focus. To appear in Simin Karimi et al., eds. Phrasal and Clausal Architecture, John Benjamins.
   • Istvan Kenesei. 2006. Focus as identification.. In Molnar and Winkler, eds. The Architecture of Focus, Mouton DeGruyter, pp.137-168.
   • Katalin Kiss. 1998. Identificational focus versus information focus.. Language. 74:245-273.
   • Katalin Kiss. 2006. Focussing as predication.. In Molnar and Winkler, eds. The Architecture of Focus, Mouton DeGruyter, pp.169-193.
   • Kriszta Szendroi. 2003. A stress-based approach to the syntax of Hungarian focus.. The Linguistic Review. 20:37-78.

   2. other languages with focus-related syntax

5. Focus and accent:

   readings:

   • Bob Ladd. 1980. The Structure of Intonational Meaning, Indiana University Press, chapters 3 and 4.
   • Bob Ladd. 1983. Even, focus and normal stress. Journal of Semantics, 2:54-67.

6. Specificational sentences

   readings:

   • Maribel Romero. 2005. "Concealed Questions and Specificational Subjects", Linguistics and Philosophy 28:687-737.
   • As background reading (distributed in class): Yael Sharvit. 1999. "Connectivity in Specificational Sentences", Natural Language Semantics 7:299-341.

   Other topics:
   1. works by Steedman and others
   2. Dag Wold on projection
   3. Other possibilities:
   

   • Hans Kamp: again with and without stress
   • Yurie Hara: the topic marker in Ðwa and conventional implicatures
   • Types of association with focus: Beaver et al. on only versus always
   • Focus below the word level: Artstein nls 2004