Cleft structures
By: edited by Katharina Hartmann and Tonjes Veenstra
Series: Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) -- volume 208; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 208.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9789027255914; 9789027271129
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Generative grammar; Comparative and general Grammar; Syntax
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences / Marcel den Dikken; title: Wh-clefts and verb-initial word order in Austronesian languages / Edith Aldridge; title: (Pseudo)clefts at the syntax-prosody-discourse interface / Mara Frascarelli and Francesca Ramaglia; title: Clefts in Durban Zulu / Lisa S. Cheng, Laura Downing; title: The cleft pronoun and cleft clause in English / Matthew Reeve; title: The morphosyntax of Wolof clefts : structure and movement / Harold Torrence; title: Multiple focus and cleft sentences / Nancy Hedberg; title: Recursion of FocP in Malayalam / Rosmin Mathew; title: Multiple Wh-questions and the cleft construction in Malayalam / Punnapurath Madhavan; title: Cleft partitionings in Japanese, Burmese and Chinese / Daniel Hole & Malte Zimmermann; title: Italian clefts and the licensing of infinitival subject relatives / Petra Sleeman.