Discourse functions of fronted foci in Italian and Spanish

I aim to show that the peculiarity of fronted focus is that the focus is unambiguously identifiable in the sentence, making the antecedent of the focus variable accessible even

One month before Berlusconi’s resignation (OMBB), both Libero and Corriere della Sera have more positive contents than La Repubblica, which can be interpreted as follows:

intonational data from Spanish and Italian, which are generally considered word order languages, show clearly that intonation alone (i.e. without an accompanying focal word order)

“decree of doing” witnesses the institutionalisation of environmental issues, and the Regional Landscape Plan witnesses their politicization, Tirreno Power’s case explains

Io sono diciamo arrivata vicino alla prima freccia.. I am let’s say arrived close to the

However, it may be worth considering that drawing on word coinage, foreignizing and/or code switching practices implies that students need to have a certain knowledge of

La strategia difensiva di alcune banche prevede di acquisire o sviluppare le FinTech, spesso start up che offrono servizi di pagamento on line innovativi; ma questa

This segmenter is based on Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) for Spanish, and uses lexical and syntactic in- formation to translate rules valid for Spanish into rules for Catalan..