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It is interesting to note that the bare adjective cases only work with a restricted set of adjectives.

(5) I like cold beer but I don't like warm.

(6) I like the big hat but I don't like the small.

(7) *I like helping pleasant customers but I don't like helping angry.

(8) *I like the pretty hat but I don't like the ugly.

More work needs to be done to determine what limits the adjectives which can appear in this class of reduced DPs. 

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... (1994)2
In press at the time of Rooth's writing. 
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... type3
This ``alternative semantics'' interpretation might also be defined recursively. The interpretation of a focused lexical item would be the set of lexical items of the same semantic type. Composition would proceed as it does in ``ordinary semantics,'' unless one of the phrases to be combined was a set of interpretations. In this case, the interpretation would then be a new set obtained by combining each member in the set of alternatives with the other constituents. If the phrase contained two sets of alternatives, the new set could be constructed with pairs of members of each set. 
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... on.4
While Rooth is not explicit about excluding, for example, short farmer from this set of alternatives, it is not clear that this should be done. There may be contexts where American$_F$ is focused and meant to contrast with short farmer:

Americans are tall. So while farmers in the Pygmy nation of Falabala have to let the fruit in the tops of their trees rot, AMERICAN$_F$ farmers can pick it all. 

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... insulted5
Under the assumption that calling someone a Republican is an insult. 
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... F-clo(A)6
``Entails'' should be replaced here with ``entails element in.'' 
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... elided7
This predicts that bicycle can be elided exactly when Schwinn is focused, which of course cannot be right. 
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