[PDF] On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-peripheral

A case of focal adverb preposing - draft - Karen Lahousse

Internet Celebration for Adriana Belletti 60 Birthday

A case of focal adverb preposing in French 64 Keiko Murasugi Ne -attachment ( Ne-tuke ) on the Truncated Sentences 67

Preposed Negation in Danish - Stanford University

Furthermore not even all conditional complementizers allo w preposing - de-spite their semantics The complementizers safremt (`provided that') and ifald (`in case') do not allow preposing, while the complementizers hvis (`if') and dersom (`if') do (14) hvis if / / dersom if ikke not du you vil want deltage to participate (15) * sa fremt

On the Syntax and Pragmatics of Some Clause-peripheral

contrastive focalisation through simple preposing The cleft construction is used in this case (Belletti 2013 for a comparison with Japanese): (5)a Son livre, tu devrais le lire ‘His book, you should read’ b C’est son livre que tu devrais lire ___ (pas celui de Jean) ‘It is his book that you shopuld read, not Jean’s’

A cognitive perspective on the semantics of near

primary focal prominence, that is, the TR status, and Geneva the secondary focal prominence, the LM status The earliest records of the word near dating back to the 9th century (OED, 1989) may suggest that the word is well established in the English language Originally, near was the comparative of the Old English adverb néah and the