1999
DOI: 10.1162/002438999554110
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Pseudocleft Connectedness: Implications for the LF Interface Level

Abstract: Pseudoclefts constitute a difficult challenge for linguistic theory, displaying effects of core syntactic conditions in a noncanonical configuration that cannot be normalized with standard syntactic operations. We argue that these ''connectedness'' effects follow from the nature of pseudoclefts as equatives. This treatment yields an integrated account of the syntactic and semanticopragmatic properties of the construction, but leads to the conclusion that certain syntactic constraints apply to a level of repres… Show more

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“…Another context in which the verb phrase is fronted is specificational pseudo-clefting, as claimed by Blom & Daalder (1977), Declerck (1988), Den Dikken (1995), Heggie (1988), Heycock (1994), Higgins (1979), Moro (1997) and Verheugd (1990) (Sailor 2012:8) A third context that has been argued to involve displacement of the predicate (i.e., the verb phrase in this case) is predicate inversion, see Hooper & Thompson (1973), Emonds (1976, Heycock & Kroch (1999) and Haegeman (2008). This phenomenon too patterns like VPF: being is obligatorily fronted with the inversed predicate, see (40).…”
Section: Extending the Data Rangementioning
confidence: 97%
“…Another context in which the verb phrase is fronted is specificational pseudo-clefting, as claimed by Blom & Daalder (1977), Declerck (1988), Den Dikken (1995), Heggie (1988), Heycock (1994), Higgins (1979), Moro (1997) and Verheugd (1990) (Sailor 2012:8) A third context that has been argued to involve displacement of the predicate (i.e., the verb phrase in this case) is predicate inversion, see Hooper & Thompson (1973), Emonds (1976, Heycock & Kroch (1999) and Haegeman (2008). This phenomenon too patterns like VPF: being is obligatorily fronted with the inversed predicate, see (40).…”
Section: Extending the Data Rangementioning
confidence: 97%
“…Mikkelsen conclude: «This meaning difference is not truthconditional, but seems to reside in the realm of information structure and discorse felicity». 21 Per altre proposte, si veda Heycock & Kroch (1999; ipotesi di subject raising) e Rothstein (2001; ipotesi della transitive structure); si veda inoltre Mikkelsen (2005) per uno stato dell'arte dettagliato delle varie interpretazioni all'interno del quadro generativista.…”
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“…On an analysis that treats the postcopular constituent of specificational pseudo-clefts as a full-fledged clause subject to ellipsis, licensing any in (1) is perfectly simple: it can proceed in terms of garden-variety S-structure c-command between the negative constituent (nobody) and the NPI (any) within S 2 , even in the variant of (1) in which the postcopular constituent would appear to be a mere noun phrase. By taking this tack, we get the polarity item licensed at S-structure, and thereby void the need for mechanisms (such as those proposed by Heycock andKroch, 1999 andBošković, 1997) that would take care of the licensing of any at some post-Spell-Out point.…”
Section: Specificational Pseudo-clefts As Topic-comment Constructionsmentioning
confidence: 99%