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The volume addresses descriptive, theoretical and practical issues relatedto the use of Cleft constructions in contemporary varieties of Romance and Germaniclanguages. By presenting, in a single book, data from both the Romanceand the Germanic languages, one of the main objectiv…
The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with discussion of Italian, French and Spanish data) and the Germanic languages (with focus on English, German, Swiss German…
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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 b…
