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Clefting and nominal predication

Katharina Haude

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Movima (isolate, Bolivia) has two focus constructions that superficially look very similar. One is a simple clause with the noun in predicate position and the verb placed inside the argument phrase. Its pragmatically marked status stems from the inversion of the prototypical association of lexical and pragmatic categories. In the other construction, the predicative noun is additionally preceded by a free pronoun. This construction is a cleft, the pronoun and noun together constituting an equational matrix clause. The two constructions also differ in function: the simple clause with a nominal predicate is a simple predication, while the cleft implies specific or generic reference.

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hal-03093271 , version 1 (03-01-2021)
hal-03093271 , version 2 (21-12-2021)

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Katharina Haude. Clefting and nominal predication: Two focus-marking constructions in Movima. Faits de langues, 2021, Clefts and related focus constructions, 52 (1). ⟨hal-03093271v2⟩
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