Anna Szabolcsi

Additive Presuppositions Are Derived Through Activating Focus Alternatives

2025 · Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium

The additive presupposition of particles like too/even is uncontested, but usually stipulated. This paper proposes to derive it based on two properties. (i) too/even is cross-linguistically focus-sensitive, and (ii) in many languages, too/even builds negative …