About the Focus (fwd)

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A student of my department ask me to mail to the LFG list the following 
question about the representation of the Focus in LFG. Could anyone help 
her? Thanks a lot.
Begona Carrascal

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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 18:59:31 +0000 (WET)
From: Isabel Gomez Txurruka <ylbgotxi at sf.ehu.es>
To: ylpcaplb at sf.ehu.es
Subject: Focus

Hello!
I'm interested in studying the interaction between discourse relations 
like contrast or correction (in SDRT framework) and the informational 
partition (pragmatic focus and topic).
Can I assume that, given a utterance, the syntax (LFG) and the entonation 
will give us a set of possible informational structures (PISs) so that we 
can then choose the right one in a given context?

Here is an example (from Jackendoff, 1972):
*capital letters stand for entonational prominence

"MARY ate the beans"

PIS = {(1) /F MARY/ ate the beans, (2) /F MARY ate/ the beans}

where (1) can be a response to "Who ate the beans?" and (2) can appear in 
a context like: "What about the beans?"

Any bibliographical help, comments o suggestions are welcome.

Thanks
Isabel: ylbgotxi at sc.ehu.es