Topicalization, clld and the left periphery

Autor: Haegeman, Liliane M. V.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Popis: Starting from a consideration of the internal make-up of adverbial clauses this paper shows that the widespread assumption that fronted arguments in English and CLLD constituents in Romance occupy the same position leads to a number of problems. I will conclude that the position occupied by English topicalized arguments differs from that of the CLLD topics in Romance. In particular, English topics occupy a higher position in the left periphery. The final part of the paper compares three proposals for the lower topic position in Romance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE