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Locality, focus and covert movement
This paper offers new evidence for covert focus movement in two areas of Chinese syntax, concerning A’-extraction and the distribution of anaphoric...
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Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking
Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking,...
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On the roles of anaphoricity and questions in free focus
The sensitivity of focus to context has often been analyzed in terms of focus-based anaphoric relations between sentences and surrounding discourse....
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On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese
A number of works have assumed the existence of so-called “low focus movement” in Brazilian Portuguese, that is, focus-driven movement to a...
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Floating quantifiers, specificity and focus in Lalo Yi
Lalo Yi presents a distribution of numeral-classifier pairs that appears to be the complete inverse of the norm found in other numeral-classifier...
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Focus without pitch boost: focus sensitivity in Japanese why-questions and its theoretical implications
Unlike typical wh-questions, why -questions are known to be focus-sensitive, but the linguistic realization of their focus sensitivity shows an...
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Two steps to high absolutive syntax: Austronesian voice and agent focus in Mandar
The westernmost languages of the Austronesian family show verbal alternations that are traditionally referred to as a voice system. This paper...
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The interpretation and distribution of temporal focus particles
Among the scalar usages of only , there is one that has a temporal dimension. In Carla understood the problem only on Sunday , for instance, Sunday is...
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Linguistic Manifestations in a Multilingual World: Focus on English
In this chapter, readers learn about different manifestations of language which have emerged as the result of multilingualism and language contact....
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Focus in wh-questions
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the...
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Stylistic Change in Early Modern Spanish Poetry Through Network Analysis (with an Especial Focus on Fernando de Herrera’s Role)
Early Modern Spanish literature, also known as Golden Age Spanish literature, is a well-established period in the History of Spanish literary...
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The coming apart of case and focus in Bantu
The paper presents an argument for structural case in a Bantu language, Ndebele. Bantu languages notoriously lack typical signs of case licensing,...
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Metadiscourse Learning Trajectories in Multilingual Learners: A Focus on Attitude Markers and Hedges
The role of metadiscourse in the attainment of persuasion in any type of human interaction is indisputable. In multilingual settings, learners need...
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Opportunities for Pre-Service Teacher Learning in Video-Mediated Peer Interactions: Focus on Classroom Interactional Competence
The pandemic-related disruption to education worldwide has led pre-service language teacher education activities to go fully online. In order to...
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Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy A Study in the Semantics of Only and its Interaction with Gradable Antonyms
This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or “evaluative”) gradable...
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The Tug-Of-War of Journal Editing: Trust and Risk in Focus
Drawing on (auto) ethnographical methods and informed by the Positioning and Decision Theories, in this chapter I reconceptualise the role of journal...
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Communicating Hate on YouTube: The Macedonian Identity in Focus
This chapter explores the dominant narratives of the two conflicting sides—Greeks and Macedonians—on YouTube to reveal how these narratives promote a...
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20th-century Soviet–Russian dictionary front matter: focus on the linguistic norm
Two iconic twentieth-century print dictionaries provide a sampling of dictionary front matter in the Soviet–Russian lexicographic tradition; they...
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Focus on Language in CBI: How Teacher Trainees Work with Language Objectives and Language-Focused Activities in Content-Based Lessons
This paper investigates to what extent teacher trainees who had received instruction in pedagogical linguistics incorporate language learning in...