semantics dynamics focus structure nomi erteschik shir ben gurion university negev dynamics focus structure isbn 0521 59217 8 hardback 6 x 9 294 pp publisher cambridge university press 64 95 modes perception vision hearing etc organized foreground focus background constituents natural language sentences different book explores role focusing natural language sentences role basic cognitive mechanism explaining sentence stress meaning structure result innovative view linguistic competence contents introduction 1 interpretation fstructure 2 reference coreference 3 negation questions contrast 4 phonological interpretation fstructure 5 scope rdependencies 6 dependencies da sstructure conclusion references index names index subjects order info http www cup org order html focus natural language processing linguistic cognitive computational perspectives focus natural language processing linguistic cognitive computational perspectives isbn 0521 58305 5 hardback 6 x 9 c 300 pp p bosch ed institute logic linguistics ibm germany publisher cambridge university press 59 95 books presents collection papers issue focus broadest sense commonly considered related phenomena presupposition anaphora focusing much widely spread pervasiveness current collection addresses work loosely originates conference held 1994 schloss wolfsbrunnen germany although small subpart proceedings papers presented included contributed papers reworked current volume present coherent study subject contents introduction part 1 intonation syntax 1 contrastive stress contrariety focus 2 processing information structure synphonics 3 focus sentence accents english 4 informational autonomy 5 focus operator scope german 6 subject prodrop yiddish 7 remarks intonation focus part 2 semantics 8 alternative 9 topic 10 focus nominal quantifiers 11 dependencies focusstructure 12 topic focus negation 13 topic focus weak quantifiers 14 focus quantification semanticspragmatic issues 15 association focus association presupposition 16 time adverbials sentence discourse part 3 discourse 17 focusing particles ellipsis resolution 18 discourse focus background distinction 19 different kinds focus 20 stressed unstressed pronouns complementary preferences 21 frame shifts indefinite reference familiar referents 22 discourse linking discourse subordination 23 domain restriction 24 updates files focusground order info http www cup org order html