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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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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, ...