The journal Theoretical Linguistics, under the new editorship of Manfred Krifka, is now an open peer review journal. Currently, one of the target articles is a paper on focus by Geurts and van der Sandt. Review articles are now appearing in prepublication form on the web. [I was also asked to contribute but can't wrap my head around the issues at the moment, quite apart from having no time for it. I am certain that the other experts will say everything that needs to be said.] Here is the target article and the reviews that I have come across:
- Target: Bart Geurts and Rob van der Sandt. “Interpreting Focus”:http://www.kun.nl/phil/tfl/bart/papers/focus.pdf.
- Reviews:
- David Beaver. Five only pieces.
- Daniel Büring. “Focus Suppositions”:http://semanticsarchive.net/Archive/mZkNmU5O/Buring.FocusSuppositions.04.pdf.
- Gerhard Jäger. Alternatives or presuppositions? A comparison of the Background-Presupposition Rule with Alternative Semantics.
- Angelika Kratzer. Interpreting Focus: Presupposed or Expressive Meanings?
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Many thanks for collecting all these links in one place.
I highly recommend this collection. There is a lot of agreement among the commentators about the range of facts that a theory of presuppositions should account for, which is encouraging.
If there are other commentators out there, I hope they too post their responses somewhere where Kai can find them.
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