| Autor: |
Jos Tellings |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Glossa, Vol 5, Iss 1 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2397-1835 |
| DOI: |
10.5334/gjgl.1092 |
| Popis: |
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the semantic and syntactic properties of all-clefts (All I ate for dinner was a salad). The main characteristic of all-clefts is the inference that what is designated by the cleft is not much (the “smallness effect”). On the basis of novel observations on all-clefts with multi-clausal precopular clauses, and the interaction with negation and questions, I argue for three claims: (i) the word all is the head of a relative clause (not a free relative), (ii) the precopular clause is derived by syntactic movement, and (iii) the source of the smallness effect is the mirativity of only (Beaver & Clark 2008; Zeevat 2009). The little formal work that exists on all-clefts (Homer 2019) does not offer an analysis that reflects these three claims. Instead I propose a derivational account of all-clefts based on Boeckx (2007). |
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