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Cross-linguistically, there are three grammatical devices to process the question mark j+Whi: the reduplication of certain elements in the predicate, Subject-Auxiliary Inversion, and the use of question particles. Also cross-linguistically, there are two devices for grammar to process the focus mark (+Focus]: the fronting of focused constituents and the insertion of a . Focus Marker such as the...

This paper discusses and evaluates different approaches to the nuclear stress (NS) algorithm in light of the variability in stress pattern observed for certain constructions in German and English in wide focus contexts (“unmarked” stress patterns), in opposition to the rigid (right-most) nature of NS in Spanish/Italian. The paper also briefly discusses the case of nuclear stress in narrow focus...

This paper, through a close examination, builds missing links between three types of focus constructions in Japanese: Cleft, Sluicing, and socalled ‘No da’ in-situ focus construction. Adopting Rizzi’s (1997) articulated CP clause architecture, we demonstrate that these missing links are provided with a syntactic explanation. We also discuss a syntaxphonology interface phenomenon, namely, the in...

in this paper we introduce the construction of free profinite products of profinite groups withcommuting subgroups. we study a particular case: the proper free profinite products of profinite groups with commuting subgroups. we prove some conditions for a free profinite product of profinite groups with commuting subgroups to be proper. we derive some consequences. we also compute profinite comp...

extended abstract 1. introduction the diversity of impersonal constructions and the different approaches used in studying them have caused different and sometimes contradictory positions about their classification and the explanation of grammatical and semantic roles of their components. this article reveals the necessity of studying them with a new approach which pursues a common basis coverin...

This paper deals with three copular constructions in French that take bare nominals as a predicative complement (attribut du sujet). From a lexical point of view, these constructions, which are typical of colloquial French, are very open frames. After a detailed analysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions, I will examine them in the light of a more theoretical quest...

The Bank of Russian Constructions and Valencies (Russian FrameBank) is an annotation project that takes as input samples from the Russian National Corpus (http://www.ruscorpora.ru). Since Russian verbs and predicates from other POS classes have their particular and not always predictable case pattern, these words and their argument structures are to be described as lexical constructions. The sl...

My objective in this paper i s to provide a contrastive analysis of partitives in English and Italian. The differences between these two languages appear to be representat ive of the di fferences prevail ing throughout the Romance and Germanic families and thus i t is hoped that the analysis to be offered wil l be of more general appl icabil i ty . I will couch my proposal within an approach to...