+ Significance of the study
- "The formal semantic analysis of predicate focus is by and large clear. The questions as to
how different kinds of predicate focus are realized, compared to each other and compared to
term focus is still an open issue." (Zimmermann 2008: 9)
- "In der mittlerweile umfangreichen Literatur zu Fokus wurde die Fokussierung von
prädikatszentrierten Fokuskategorien bisher oft stiefmütterlich behandelt." (Güldemann
2009: 2)
+The predicate is the host of two major functions:
(a) instantiates illocutionary act
(b) identifies/selects a state-of-affairs
- The terminological precision should disambiguate between:
(a) verb/predicate operator focus – includes most important truth-value ~ "verum" focus.
(b) state-of-affairs focus – verb (lexeme), (Fiedler et al. 2010: 2).
+Below is an illustration of the predicate-centered focus types based on Güldemann (2009).