- Author
- Year
- 2010
- Title
- Infinitival relative clauses and Italian clefts
- Journal
- Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
- Volume | Issue number
- 12 | 1
- Pages (from-to)
- 35-50
- Number of pages
- 16
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
- Abstract
-
This paper addresses the issue of the licensing of infinitival subject relative clauses by clefts. I claim that infinitival subject relatives are licensed by a contrastive focus. I assume that in Italian clefts always express a contrastive focus, which makes them licensors of infinitival subject relative clauses as opposed to English and French in which a cleft does not necessarily have to be contrastive. I furthermore claim that the infinitival relative clause is a complement, which would account for the fact that it allows extraction.
- Link
- Link
- Language
- English
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.327719
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