Locative Inversion and Stage Topics: A Cross-Linguistic Study
This paper seeks to identify the conditions which a clause-initial X phrase (XP) must satisfy to license locative inversion. Three SVO (subject-verb-object) languages with distinct degrees of word order flexibility are considered: English, French and European Portugue...
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2016-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/discours/9229 |