| Title: | Infinitival relative clauses and Italian clefts |
| Author: | Petra Sleeman |
| Publication: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, XII (1) |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-9239 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din București |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses the issue of the licensing of infinitival subject relative clauses by clefts. I claim that infinitival subject relatives are licensed by a contrastive focus. I assume that in Italian clefts always express a contrastive focus, which makes them licensors of infinitival subject relative clauses as opposed to English and French in which a cleft does not necessarily have to be contrastive. I furthermore claim that the infinitival relative clause is a complement, which would account for the fact that it allows extraction. |
| Key words: | left, infinitival relative clause, contrastive focus, Italian |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 1 | Petra Sleeman | Quantifier preposing in French and Italian as a root phenomenon: a syntactic or a pragmatic approach? | BWPL, XIV (1) | 2012 | pdf html |
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