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Title Cleft structures / edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 208
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 208.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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 analysis of the position of clefted constituents that license infinitival subject relatives in Italian. It is argued that they occupy a left-peripheral Focus position in the clause. On the basis of extraction data, it is argued that the infinitival subject relative itself is a complement. Keywords: cleft.
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Subject Generative grammar.
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hartmann, Katharina, editor.
Veenstra, Tonjes, 1962- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cleft structures 9789027255914 (DLC) 2013032682 (OCoLC)857849755
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