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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972361103321

Titolo

Cleft structures / / edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2013

ISBN

9789027271129

9027271127

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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; infinitival relative clause; contrastive focus; Italian; left-periphery.