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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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
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.