Scrambling as verum focus

In this paper I demonstrate that in Mòcheno, a German dialect spoken in Northern Italy, scrambling, i.e. the movement of any constituent above sentential adverbs and below the finite verb, is permitted like in Continental Germanic languages. Unlike in these languages, however, leftward movement i...

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Main Author: Cognola, Federica
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2017-09-01
Series:Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Occidentale
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Online Access:http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2017/1/scrambling-as-verum-focus/