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Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English. A comparative perspective
Book Item (Buchkapitel, Lexikonartikel, jur. Kommentierung, Beiträge in Sammelbänden)
 
ID 4491463
Author(s) De Cesare, Anna-Maria; Garassino, Davide
Author(s) at UniBasel De Cesare Greenwald, Anna-Maria
Year 2018
Title Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English. A comparative perspective
Editor(s) García García, Marco; Uth, Melanie
Book title Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond
Volume 201
Publisher Benjamins
Place of publication Amsterdam-Philadelphia
Pages 255-286
ISSN/ISBN 978-90-272-0150-8
Series title Studies in Language Companion Series
Abstract The aim of this paper is to offer a multi-layered analysis of adverbial clefts in Italian, French, and English. In particular, we intend to offer a corpus-based study of the syntactic category of the cleft constituent, its semantic type and, finally, the information structure of adverbial clefts. In the first part of our contribution, after defining the concept of adverbial, we discuss which categories of adverbials can (or cannot) be clefted. In the second part, we cast light on the similarities and differences between the three languages. The main cross-linguistic similarities concern the semantic type of cleft adverbials, whereas the most significant differences lie in information structure. Finally, we will relate our empirical findings to the ongoing theoretical discussion on the semantics (and pragmatics) of adverbial clefts.
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/67249/
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Digital Object Identifier DOI 10.1075/slcs.201.09dec
 
   

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