The morpho-syntactic encoding of discourse-linked topics: an agreement alternation in inversion in North-Eastern Italian varieties
In this paper, I will argue that some languages dispose over two kinds of expletives: a purely syntactic expletive and a ‘thetic expletive’ enumerated from the lexicon and triggering a thetic interpretation of the sentence. I will present data from two North-Eastern Italian varieties that exhibit a...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5344/ |