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Chapter 5. Presentational clefts, existentials and information structure

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Presentational c’è / il y a clefts in Italian and French have been argued to differ from the existential and locative constructions they derive from by their syntactic, semantic and information-structural properties: they would invariably convey sentence-focus. In the present study, we argue for a unitary treatment of all c’è / il y a constructions, whose meaning is locational-existential, and whose discourse function is to present the nominal argument as non-topical. This analysis de-particularizes presentational clefts with respect to locative and existential c’è / il y a constructions and accounts for the fact that, rather than conveying invariably sentence-focus, they present the same variety of information structure articulations as the non-cleft c’è / il y a constructions.
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hal-04156314 , version 1 (08-07-2023)

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Anne Carlier, Karen Lahousse. Chapter 5. Presentational clefts, existentials and information structure. Existential Constructions across Languages, 76, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp.139-179, 2023, Human Cognitive Processing, ⟨10.1075/hcp.76.05car⟩. ⟨hal-04156314⟩
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