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In this section we describe some of the principal differences in theoretical background that make it initially difficult to compare specific proposals for particular constructions. We also present our initial assessments of some specific differences of opinion on substantive points, especially those which have come to light directly as a result of our explorations of our theoretical differences.
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It might be of interest to note that the dependency view of sentence structure was present in German syntactic theories as soon as the first half of the nineteenth century, see esp. Becker (1837). The use of the term ‘head’ within a constituency based theory can be traced back to Bloomfield (1933) in his discussion of endocentric constructions.
An important question is whether an adequate account of focus and focus sensitivity necessarily involves movement rules. In any case, two orderings are present: the surface word order and the underlying word order based on CD. Their relationship can be characterized either by movement rules, or e.g. by an indexing (numerical, for the underlying word order). In languages having a high degree of ‘free’ word order the differences between the two orderings are less numerous (and less frequent) than in languages with a highly grammaticalized word order. The movements may be viewed as similar to rules of the placement of prepositions and other function words.
In Only ADAM ate an apple the particle again would depend on the verb; however, the secondary position of the intonation center is relevant here. It is to be stressed that only is assumed to move (optionally) to the left of the verb, not of a noun (another case is that of a particle syntactically subordinated to the noun, cf. below).
We do not discuss here the possible interpretation with the ex-convict (and not just with the red shirt) belonging to the scope of only.
See the discussion of the notion of scope in Section 5.1.2.
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Hajičová, E., Partee, B.H., Sgall, P. (1998). Obstacles to Joint Work. In: Hajičová, E., Partee, B.H., Sgall, P. (eds) Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, vol 71. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9012-9_4
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