Fronting and verum focus in Spanish

Leonetti, Manuel; Escandell-Vidal, M. Victoria

doi:10.1075/slcs.112.07leo

In:Focus and Background in Romance Languages
Edited by Andreas Dufter and Daniel Jacob
[Studies in Language Companion Series 112] 2009
► pp. 155–204

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Fronting and verum focus in Spanish

Manuel Leonetti

M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal

Published online: 18 June 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.112.07leo

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