Gradience and optionality in the syntactic realization of focus
The goal of this paper is to analyse the optionality and gradience observed in the syntactic distribution of information focus in three Romance languages: Catalan, Spanish and Italian. While the postverbal position is preferred in the three languages, the preverbal position is also acceptable to so...
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| Main Authors: | Silvio Cruschina, Laia Mayol |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2025-05-01
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| Series: | Isogloss |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/547 |
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