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Stylistic Fronting

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Author

  • Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson

Summary, in English

If stylistic fronting is analyzed as feature-driven movement into an articulated CP-domain, in particular FocusP in the sense of Rizzi (1997), it is possible to account for two facts about stylistic fronting that so far have received little attention, namely that stylistic fronting has semantic effects and that there are differences in stylistic fronting in subordinate clauses with no overt subject and subordinate clauses with a weak subject pronoun. In this article, I will propose that there are two types of stylistic fronting, stylistic fronting of XPs into FocusP-Spec and stylistic fronting of heads into Focus°. Stylistic fronting of XPs can only be found in clauses with no overt subject, whereas stylistic fronting of heads can be found both in clauses with no overt subject and in clauses with a weak subject pronoun.

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

88-134

Publication/Series

Studia Linguistica

Volume

58

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Status

Published

Research group

  • GRIMM

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-9582