The volume describes the frequency, the forms and the functions of different cleft construction types across two language families: the Romance languages (with

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpecte

What are the linguistic means for expressing different types of foci such as (narrow) information focus and contrastive focus in Romance languages, and why are

Different components of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. It has been under debate what the actual range of interaction is and how we can most appropriately

This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cle