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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813415303321

Titolo

Cleft structures / / edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

90-272-7112-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 pages)

Collana

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Altri autori (Persone)

HartmannKatharina

VeenstraTonjes <1962->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Language and languages

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.