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A comparative study of alternating presentational constructions in Dutch, English and Italian

Start - End 
2016 - 2020 (ongoing)
Type 
PhD research
Department(s) 
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s) 
GLIMS - Ghent University Research Group on Linguistic Meaning & Structure
Research Focus 
Linguistics
Research Period 
Contemporary
Research Region 
Western Europe
Research Language 
Dutch
English
Italian
Research Methodology 
Comparative
Quantitative
Surveys
Additional tags 
Information structure
Syntax-discourse interface
Syntax
prosody
Comparative linguistics
General linguistics

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Abstract

This project aims to study the functional range and the alternating uses of four types of presentational constructions (prosodic inversion, syntactic inversion, syntactic inversion with filler insertion and syntactic split) in three Indo-European languages (English, Dutch and Italian).

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