Affirmative focus

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We present a phenomenon in Modern Hebrew where an accented affirmative particle *ken* ‘yes’ adjoins to the verb in a proposition p and contributes the meaning ‘indeed p’. Similar phenomena were investigated in English and German, under the term verum (‘truth’) focus, and are often explained via a silent truth operator at the left periphery of the clause. Alternative accounts derive the same meaning through the mechanism of focus alternatives. The data from Hebrew provides evidence in favor of the latter.

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