Verum focus and polar questions
We argue that some word order phenomena in Romanian and Sardinian are the result of a checkingoperation in the left periphery involving verum focus (i.e. focus on the polarity component of the sentence).In particular, this operation accounts for some word order patterns found in polar questions. In...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/verum_focus_and_polar_questions |