When subjects frame the clause: discontinuous noun phrases as an iconic strategy for marking thetic constructions
This article builds on observations from several research areas which hitherto have been pursued relatively independently of one another, to argue that discontinuous nominal expressions are one of the attested strategies for marking a subtype of sentence focus constructions known as thetic construct...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0138 |