| Title: | Verum focus and polar questions |
| Authors: | Ion Giurgea, Eva-Maria Remberger |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XIV (2) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | We argue that some word order phenomena in Romanian and Sardinian are the result of a checking operation 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 Romanian, polarity fronting is realized as head-movement of (V+)T to a higher peripheral head which bears a Focusprobe. This licenses VS orders for predications in which VS is not allowed as a neutral order (i-level predicates, iteratives, generics). In Sardinian, an entire phrase headed by the lexical predicate (verbal nonfinite form or non-verbal predicate) is fronted before the auxiliary. We argue that this order is obtained by two movement operations, head-raising of Aux to Foc and movement of the predicate phrase to SpecFoc. We also present the semantics of polarity focus, distinguishing several types of focus (informational, emphatic, contrastive). |
| Key words: | verum focus, polar questions, focalization, Romanian, Sardinian |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 5
| 1 | Ion Giurgea | Verum Focus in Polar Questions in Romanian: Prosodic Effects | RRL, LXII (1), 59-76 | 2017 | pdf html |
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 57, 2014). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2014 | LR, LXIV (2), 183 | 2015 | |
| 5 | Ion Giurgea | Exclamativele în română și alte limbi romanice | SIL5, 264 | 2015 | |
| 5 | Silvio Cruschina, Ion Giurgea, Eva-Maria Remberger | Focus Fronting Between Declaratives and Exclamatives | RRL, LX (2-3), 257-275 | 2015 | pdf html |
| 16 | Alexandru Nicolae | Ordinea constituenţilor în limba română: o perspectivă diacronică Structura propoziţiei şi deplasarea verbului | Editura Universității din București | 2015 |
References in this publication: 2
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