When verbal predicates go fronting
- This paper demonstrates that there are no empirical and theoretical motivations for regarding verbal predicate focus constructions as (diachronically) derived from cleft constructions. Instead, it is argued that predicate fronting for the purpose of focus or topic is comparable to verb (phrase) fronting structures in other languages (e.g., Germanic). The proposed analysis further indicates that related doubling strategies observed in certain languages are the consequences of parallel chains that license the fronted verb (phrase) in the left periphery, and the Agree-tense-aspect features inside the proposition.
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| Author: | Enoch O. Aboh |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-309944 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/187.html?&L=1] |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers on information structure in African languages : [resulted from the International Conference "Focus in African Languages" held October 6-8, 2005 at the Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin] / eds.: Ines Fiedler ... |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Prädikat; Afrikanische Sprachen |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Page Number: | 28 |
| First Page: | 21 |
| Last Page: | 48 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381129969 |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Syntax |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: Lexikologie/Etymologie / Lexicology/Etymology | |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 46 = Papers on information structure in African languages |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306894 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
