It-clefts and stressed operators in the preverbal field of Cypriot Greek

Agouraki, Yoryia

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.10.011

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“…It addressed the question as to why quantifiers are sometimes legitimate as clefted constituents and sometimes not. Using Cypriot Greek data, the paper showed that only quantifiers bearing a strong reading are allowed to occur in clefts (Agouraki 2010). The paper argued that this can be accounted for if we analyze Cypriot Greek clefts as expressing identificational focus (É.…”

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“…Ulli 'all' in (10) qualifies for a clefted constituent. I argue, contra Fotiou (2009) and Agouraki (2010) Kathe γonios 'every parent' is identified as the exhaustive set for which the predicate phrase in (35) holds, excluding the contextually given alternative merici γonis 'some parents'. Kathe γonios 'every parent' does not exclude any member of its restriction set, but the alternative that is given in the discourse.…”

Section: Quantifiers and Exhaustive Identificationmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Only quantifiers bearing a strong reading are legitimate as clefted constituents (cf. Agouraki 2010). The paper provides an account for this, showing that quantifiers which have a strong interpretation can express exhaustive identification (É.…”

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The distribution of quantifiers in clefts

Kanikli

2016

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This paper examines the distribution of quantifiers in clefts. It addresses the fact that quantifiers are not always banned as clefted constituents and discusses analyses which have been proposed in the literature in order to account for this phenomenon.The paper argues that quantifiers qualify for clefted constituents only when they bear a strong reading (Agouraki 2010). Using Cypriot Greek data, it argues that clefts express identificational focus and shows that under this analysis, the distribution of quantifiers, which are sometimes allowed to occur in clefts and sometimes not, can be explained. Quantifiers which have a strong interpretation can express exhaustive identification, whereas quantifiers which bear a weak reading cannot, as they do not satisfy the existence presupposition induced by the cleft clause. The analysis can carry over to crosslinguistic data displaying similar constraints on the distribution of quantifiers in constructions which express identificational focus.

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Section: Quantifiers and Exhaustive Identificationmentioning

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The distribution of quantifiers in clefts

Kanikli

2016

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“…1 The syntactic status of embu is unclear. According to Grohmann, Panagiotidis & Tsiplakou (2006) (henceforth GPT) and Agouraki (2010), embu is the contracted form of the copula en 'is' and the complementiser pu 'that'. This is reminiscent of the est-ce que strategy in Romance languages.…”

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“…There is, however, a disagreement in the literature regarding the status of the relevant data. On the one hand, Gryllia & Lekakou (2007), Fotiou (2009) and Agouraki (2010) have proposed that the embu strategy also occurs in focalizing constructions. GPT, on the other hand, take these cases to be rather marginal.…”

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‘Embu’ <i>Wh</i>- questions in Cypriot Greek: A comparative study

Kanikli

Tsoulas

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper proposes a novel syntactic analysis for embu Whquestions in Cypriot Greek; a Whquestion variant which is similar to the est-ce que interrogatives in French and the é que interrogatives in European Portuguese. The paper examines properties of the embu questions which have not been addressed in the literature and investigates the asymmetries these interrogatives are assumed to display. Adopting a Split-CP analysis, we argue that embu is a Whhead; an analysis which accounts for the examined syntactic and semantic properties of these questions. Given the similarities of these structures to the é que interrogatives in European Portuguese and the est-ce que interrogatives in French, the paper reviews the disagreements in the literature with regards to the analysis of these Whquestions and explores whether the analysis that is proposed for embu questions could accommodate these data as well.

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Contrastivity in Pontic Greek

Sitaridou¹,

Kaltsa²

2014

Lingua

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It-clefts and stressed operators in the preverbal field of Cypriot Greek

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

The distribution of quantifiers in clefts

The distribution of quantifiers in clefts

‘Embu’ <i>Wh</i>- questions in Cypriot Greek: A comparative study

Contrastivity in Pontic Greek

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