The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure
This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression is systematically affected by the syntactic expression of discourse-givenness. The proposed analysis disentangles the properties genuinely associated with contrastive focalizati...
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Oxford, UK
Oxford University Press
2015
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