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标题：An analysis of all-clefts
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作者：Jos Tellings
期刊名称：Glossa
电子版ISSN：2397-1835
出版年度：2020
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：111-135
DOI：10.5334/gjgl.1092
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the semantic and syntactic properties of all-clefts (All I ate for dinner was a salad). The main characteristic of all-clefts is the inference that what is designated by the cleft is not much (the “smallness effect”). On the basis of novel observations on all-clefts with multi-clausal precopular clauses, and the interaction with negation and questions, I argue for three claims: (i) the word all is the head of a relative clause (not a free relative), (ii) the precopular clause is derived by syntactic movement, and (iii) the source of the smallness effect is the mirativity of only (Beaver & Clark 2008; Zeevat 2009). The little formal work that exists on all-clefts (Homer 2019) does not offer an analysis that reflects these three claims. Instead I propose a derivational account of all-clefts based on Boeckx (2007).
关键词：clefts; all; smallness effect; relative clauses; exclusives; only