When verbal predicates go fronting

Autor/innen

  • Enoch O. Aboh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.46.2006.334

Abstract

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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2006

Zitationsvorschlag

Aboh, Enoch O. 2006. „When Verbal Predicates Go Fronting“. ZAS Papers in Linguistics 46 (Januar):21-48. https://doi.org/10.21248/zaspil.46.2006.334.