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Norwegian Object Shift as IP-internal topicalization

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2012
In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of Object Shift in Norwegian, and we show that this operation is more complex and discourse related than what has traditionally been assumed.
Merete Anderssen, Kristine Bentzen
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A comment on the topic of topic–comment [PDF]

Lingua, 2005
Topic–comment structures are an important ingredient of the grammars of languages that are not normally thought of as topic-prominent or discourse-configurational. This paper presents an integrated topic–comment approach to a subtype of specificational pseudo-clefts and three constructions generally grouped under the rubric of relative clause ...
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The syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases in complex sentences: A flexible approach

Glossa, 2017
In this paper, we extend to complex sentences the proposal that the notion of clause in ALIGN/MATCH constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intonational phrase should be determined in each language (and each construction) by making ...
Fatima Hamlaoui, Kriszta Eszter Szendroi
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How to agree with a QNP

Glossa, 2019
This paper focuses on the great variety of φ-agreement patterns and case alternations quantified noun phrases trigger in Serbo-Croatian. Novel data from Serbo-Croatian are contributed, showing more agreement patterns than so far attested. Crucial for the
Imke Driemel, Jelena Stojković
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The Interaction of Topicalization and Left-Dislocation in English

Anglophonia, 2019
Topicalization (TOP) in English requires that the topicalized information stand in a partially-ordered set (poset) relationship with previously evoked information, whereas Left-Dislocation (LD) has been argued to have three discourse functions: to ...
Betty J. Birner, Gregory Ward
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Gapping is not only low coordination

Glossa, 2020
This squib is concerned with the validity of an approach to Gapping that exploits low coordination and ATB-movement (Johnson 2009). In this squib, I show that low coordination combined with ATB-movement has the following problems: (1) ATB-movement is not
Aleksandr Kalinin
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Bare quantifier fronting as contrastive topicalization [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2015
I argue that indefinites (in particular bare quantifiers such as ‘something’, ‘somebody’, etc.) which are neither existentially presupposed nor in the restriction of a quantifier over situations, can undergo topicalization in a number of Romance ...
Ion Giurgea
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Identifying and processing topicalization in Danish

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2005
In Danish there is a surprising asymmetry between pronouns and full DPs: pronouns can always be fronted, whereas full DPs are subjugated to more restrictions. This puzzle has not been addressed in the literature, and I argue that the split-CP analysis
Sofie Raviv
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When “passives” involve no A-movement: Rethinking Indonesian-type passives via East Javanese

Glossa
A passive-like construction in Javanese (Austronesian) highlights how an object topicalization construction can be formally indistinguishable from a passive in languages lacking morphological case.
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A Case of V2 in Chinese

Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2015
As far as the left periphery is concerned, there is a conspiracy between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics to ensure the success of sentence formation. We would like to put forth the claim that peripheral features play an important role in this endeavor,
Tsai Wei-Tien Dylan
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