Syntactic extraposition and clitic resumption in Italian

Romance languages make use of topicalisation as a grammatical strategy to mark [-focus] constituents, typically under Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) and Clitic Right Dislocation (CLRD). As a distinctive property, topicalisation involves clitic resumption (CR) of the dislocated constituent in Italian...

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Main Author: Cruschina, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010
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