Confronting Focus Strategies in Finnish and in Italian: An Experimental Study on Object Focusing

Focus is cross-linguistically associated with a number of different strategies, such as fronting, clefting, markers, and prosody. In some cases, the choice between one strategy or another is determined by language-specific rules, while in others, two or more strategies seem to be optional, and thus,...

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Main Authors: Elina Ylinärä, Giorgio Carella, Mara Frascarelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-01-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/32