The silent argument of broad focus: Typology and predictions

It is a commonly held view that, in the absence of an overt locative or temporal phrase, broad focus subject inversion in Romance requires a null locative in preverbal position, thus being comparable to locative inversion (Benincà 1988 and subsequent work). The (in)compatibility of a number of verbs...

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Main Authors: Delia Bentley, Silvio Cruschina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-11-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5086/