Infinitival relative clauses and italian clefts

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 rel...

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Main Author: Petra Sleeman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2010-01-01
Series:Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/infinitival_relative_clauses_and_italian_clefts