TY - JOUR AU - Brunetti, Lisa PY - 2019/08/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Is there any Difference between Contrastive Focus and Information Focus? JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 7 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2003.v7i0.791 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/791 SP - 53-69 AB - <p>This paper challenges the current assumption that there are two different types of focus in Italian: a ‘contrastive’ focus and an ‘information’ focus. I claim that the distinction does not hold at any level of the grammar. From an interpretive point of view, I show that there isn’t a focus expressing non-presupposed information and one expressing exhaustive identification, but only one focus expressing non-presupposed information. From a prosodic point of view, I argue that the rules of accent placement and the relation between accent and the focus domain are always the same. From a syntactic point of view, I show that a focus can always move to the left and that it always displays operator-like properties.</p> ER -