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Focus in Words with Truth Values
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
This article analyses the prosodic properties of words with truth values in Turkish. These are morphologically complex items that are finite predicates and that can function as declarative sentences. Researchers who have ...
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Is Topic a Root Phenomenon?
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
In this paper we discuss the question of whether topics are necessarily restricted to root clauses. From an interface perspective, if topics affect the management of the conversational common ground (Reinhart 1981; Büring ...
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A scope theory of contrastive topics
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
Contrastive Topics (CTs) in Japanese mimic foci more than topics in many ways. Their prosodic properties are essentially the same as the pattern found with foci, and information structurally, they can correspond to new ...
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The head of the Verb+Noun compounds in the Romance languages
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
Verb+Noun compounds in Spanish and the other Romance languages have well-known curious properties: (i) lack of nominalizing affix on the Verb; (ii) obligatory presence of the Noun, interpreted as the direct object of ...
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Information Structuring Begins with the Numeration
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
This paper argues for the strong minimalist view that information structure starts in the numeration in the form of discourse-related lexical items which drive the derivation. Though sometimes covert, these discoursere ...
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The syntax and prosody of Focus: the Bantu-Italian connection
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
This paper provides an overview of the literature on the syntax and prosody of focus in some of the Bantu languages (Kimatuumbi, Chimwiini, Chichewa) and in Italian, and it argues that, despite their typological distance, ...
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(Im)possible deletions in the Spanish DP
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
This paper centers on the problem of identity in Spanish nominal ellipsis. It is argued that a purely formal identity condition on nominal ellipsis, as proposed in Depiante & Masullo (2001), is not a sufficient condition ...
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On Complex Predicates in Brazilian Portuguese
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
I analyze Romance syntactic complex predicates (faire-infinitive causatives, periphrastic tenses and restructuring), and propose the unification of these phenomena usually thought to stem from different structures by ...
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Voice Mismatches in English and Spanish Sluicing
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2010)
Voice mismatches are claimed to be disallowed in sluicing due to a morpho-syntactic requirement dictating that voice specifications must be isomorphic between the antecedent and the elliptical clause (Merchant 2007). However, ...