...). Another dimension of focusing is organization in terms of maximal scope (the full range of content an expression evokes), immediate scope (the general locus of attention), and profile (the specific focus of attention). Focusing is a kind of prominence, of which there are many sorts. Two are especially...

... presupposition triggers Upward Entailing UE Maximize Strength Free Choice FC items intervention by implicatures minimality locality in syntax relativized minimality immediate scope contraint intervention via presupposition factives as interveners It has long been known that the intervention...

... difference between nouns and verbs, these oppositions are precisely the same. The essential feature of count nouns and perfective verbs is that the profiled thing or process is construed as being bounded within the immediate scope in a particular cognitive domain: the domain of instantiation, characterized...