Verum focus and polar questions

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. I...

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Main Authors: Ion Giurgea, Eva-Maria Remberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2012-11-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL_2012_nr.-2_Giurgea-Remberger.pdf