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This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Any structure whose agent is defocused and whose predicate describes a situation stable enou
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This book investigates French impersonals as a functional category. Conducted in Cognitive Grammar, the analysis follows the functional tradition in expanding t
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This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il y a clefts. While most research on clefts focusses on the English ‘prototypical’ it-cle
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This book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all othe
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This volume brings together contributions by researchers focusing on personal pronouns in Ibero-Romance languages, going beyond the well-established variable of