Publication

2013 - John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

87,000 words, Guess

Page Count

348 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC415
  • LCCP291 .C5665 2013

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.

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Series Statement

  • Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today (LA) -- volume 208

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