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      An analysis of all-clefts

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      Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
      Ubiquity Press
      clefts, all , smallness effect, relative clauses, exclusives, only

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          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).

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                Journal
                2397-1835
                Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
                Ubiquity Press
                2397-1835
                12 November 2020
                2020
                : 5
                : 1
                : 111
                Affiliations
                [1 ]UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL
                Article
                10.5334/gjgl.1092
                8955cf88-4008-47ec-aa46-e38178ecbfa8
                Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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                : 17 September 2019
                : 25 August 2020
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                General linguistics,Linguistics & Semiotics
                only ,clefts, all ,smallness effect,relative clauses,exclusives

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