Reduplication as a Strategy for <i>-ever</i> Free Relatives: Semantic and Syntactic Observations*
Italo-Romance varieties display a typologically rare strategy to realize the unconditional (or free-choice) free relative clauses, i.e. the reduplication of the verb complex. The semantic entailment of unconditionality is not conveyed through the lexicalization of a morpheme corresponding to -ever....
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Firenze University Press
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali |
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| Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/1911 |