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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| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/infinitival_relative_clauses_and_italian_clefts |