Cleft structures

Cleft structures / edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra.

This paper investigates the licensing of infinitival subject relative clauses by clefted constituents. It is claimed that in Italian clefted constituents license infinitival subject relatives because in this language clefts function as contrastive foci. This claim is supported by the syntactic analy...

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Other Authors: Hartmann, Katharina (Editor), Veenstra, Tonjes, 1962- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 208.
Subjects:
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
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Table of Contents:
  • Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences / Marcel den Dikken
  • Wh-clefts and verb-initial word order in Austronesian languages / Edith Aldridge
  • (Pseudo)clefts at the syntax-prosody-discourse interface / Mara Frascarelli and Francesca Ramaglia
  • Clefts in Durban Zulu / Lisa S. Cheng, Laura Downing
  • The cleft pronoun and cleft clause in English / Matthew Reeve
  • The morphosyntax of Wolof clefts : structure and movement / Harold Torrence
  • Multiple focus and cleft sentences / Nancy Hedberg
  • Recursion of FocP in Malayalam / Rosmin Mathew
  • Multiple Wh-questions and the cleft construction in Malayalam / Punnapurath Madhavan
  • Cleft partitionings in Japanese, Burmese and Chinese / Daniel Hole & Malte Zimmermann
  • Italian clefts and the licensing of infinitival subject relatives / Petra Sleeman.

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