Scrambling and Information Focus in Old and Contemporary Portuguese

This paper proposes that object scrambling both in Old and Contemporary Portuguese is a strategy to create appropriate information focus configurations. Essentially, it makes the rightmost constituent that would otherwise bear the neutral sentence nuclear stress escape it. In narrow information focu...

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Autor principal: Ana Maria Martins
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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2011
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