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SUMMARY:Focus Association with ONLY - Dr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MM
 LL\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Tim Laméris
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 STRACT*\n\nRus *_tol’ko_* and Chn *_zhiyou_* share an aggregate of prope
 rties that set them apart from English *_only_*. The former two must be im
 mediately adjacent to their focalized associate in contrast to English\, w
 here focus association can be discontinuous. I aspire to show that this ad
 jacency requirement is a consequence of syntactic focus movement\, trigger
 ed by a strong [Foc] feature. The movement of this type results in right-a
 djunction of an F-marked constituent to *_only_*\, yielding an appropriate
 ly local feature-checking configuration. Rus/Chn *_only_* itself is limite
 d to a handful of positions within the structure. Specifically\, it must m
 eet two requirements in order to merge successfully. First\, *_only_* adjo
 ins strictly to functional projections. Second\, these functional projecti
 ons themselves must also be phases. Ultimately\, the goal is to demonstrat
 e that *_only_* can adjoin to vP\, CP and FP: i.e. phasal functional proje
 ctions in the verbal\, clausal and nominal domains. Theoretical implicatio
 ns of this treatment are then discussed. 
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