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Root Contrastiveness and V2: A Supra-Informational Status The Case of Two North-Eastern Italian Dialects
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2018)
In the literature on Romance and Germanic V2, the fronted XP in the preverbal field is generally described as pragmatically salient, tacitly implying a crucial relationship between the V2 phenomenon and information structure. ...
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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 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, ...