Search results for " do-support strategy"

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Interrogative, pseudo-scisse e la posizione argomentale incrementale

2009

Struttura argomentale ruoli tematici do-support strategy pronomiSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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'Do'-support in a Sicilian variety, an Italian pseudo-cleft, and the packaging of information

2009

A parallel is drawn between a Sicilian structure with do-support strategy, and a type of pseudo-cleft in Italian in which a do-verb occurs. These structures are examined from three different perspectives. First, morpho-syntax: the two clause-types share a number of formal aspects, which include the do-verb, a lexical verb in the infinitive, and the sharing of the same subject by both verbs. The second has to do with their packaging of information: in both cases, higher communicative prominence is given to an event (VP) rather than a participant (NP or PP). The expression of the event is broken down into two separable components, its existence (an event is expressed without being specified, …

information structure do-support strategy pseudo-cleft Sicilian ItalianSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Interrogatives et pseudo-clivées : un parallèle

2009

wh pronouns do-support strategy argument structure questionsSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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