Sabrina Bertollo

Sabrina Bertollo

Sabrina Bertollo is Assistant Professor (Ricercatrice Tenure Track) of German Language and Linguistics at the University of Verona. She obtained her PhD in German Linguistics from the University of Padua. Her research interests and publications concern German syntax – also in its interface with morphology – with a special attention to relative clauses. She currently coordinates a nationally funded research project on the nominal domain and its development in Early New High German. She also carries out research on teaching and learning German as a foreign language, with a focus on the didactics of variation and plurilingualism. She is a member of the AlpiLinK project and director of the lifelong learning course “German for Specific Purposes” at the University of Verona.

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    By : Sabrina Bertollo

    Unconventional Relatives and Antecedents in Disguise: German Clefts and Free Relative Clauses

    di Sabrina Bertollo

    German clefts and free relatives are generally considered relative clauses. However, there is something special about them. Clefts resemble “regular” relative clauses but crucially differ from them in their semantics and functions, whereas free relatives lack an overt antecedent. Why are German clefts extremely marginal and free relatives highly constrained? Is there anything in common between these two different types of “unconventional” relatives? The exploration of the mechanisms which rule their uses will disclose the fil rouge which binds the two constructions.

    The hypothesis is that both structures imply a silent head, i.e. an antecedent “in disguise”, which is responsible of the syntax-semantics mismatch in clefts and of the constraints which limit the acceptability of German free relatives.

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