We reply to Erlewine and Kotek’s (2018) claim that the phenomenon of covariation under focus (Tanglewood sentences; Kratzer 1991) is subject to syntactic islands and that it should therefore be handled by a focus movement theory (contra Kratzer’s view). We present novel data that are at odds with Erlewine and Kotek’s conclusions and demonstrate the necessity of an island-insensitive mechanism to capture focus covariation. We revisit Erlewine and Kotek’s main arguments against such a system and show that they are systematically confounded. Moreover, removing the confounds cancels the force of the arguments, corroborating the central point of this article.

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焦点运动对抗坦格伍德：对埃勒温和科泰克的回应（2018）

我们回答Erlewine和Kotek（2018）的论点，即焦点下的协变现象（Tanglewood句子; Kratzer 1991）受句法影响，因此应通过焦点运动理论来处理（相反Kratzer的观点）。我们提出了与Erlewine和Kotek的结论不一致的新颖数据，并证明了需要使用不依赖岛的机制来捕获焦点协变的必要性。我们重新审视了Erlewine和Kotek针对这种系统的主要论点，并表明它们是系统地混淆的。此外，消除混杂因素可以消除论点的效力，从而佐证了本文的中心点。