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Selected Proceedings of the 9th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium edited by Nuria Sagarra and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio ISBN 1-57473-413-X library binding vi + 341 pages publication date: 2006 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract José Camacho In Situ Focus in Caribbean Spanish: Towards a Unified Account of Focus 13-23 (complete pdf) This paper analyzes a cleft construction available in Caribbean and Colombian varieties of Spanish where a copular verb is placed immediately before the focused constituent, which must be last in the clause. It is argued that the copular verb heads a Focus projection adjoined to the right-periphery of VP, yielding a syntactic structure that directly maps to the logical form proposed for focus. The account is extended to other cleft-focus constructions available in other varieties of Spanish. |