Quantifier preposing in French and Italian as a root phenomenon: a syntactic or a pragmatic approach?
On the basis of a corpus research it is shown that quantifier preposing in French and Italian,arguably a focalization mechanism, is a root phenomenon, occurring only in root-clauses and in root-likeclauses. It is furthermore shown that other types of focalization in the left periphery in French and...
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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/quantifier_preposing_in_french_and_italian_as_a_root_phenomenon_a_syntactic_or_a_pragmatic_approach |