Séminaire de Recherche en Linguistique
Ce séminaire reçoit des conférenciers invités spécialisés dans différents domaines de la linguistique. Les membres du Département, les étudiants et les personnes externes intéressées sont tous cordialement invités. Description du séminaire 
| Titre | Focus in Modern Eastern Armenian | |
| Conférencier | Alessandra Giorgi et Sona Haroutyunian (Ca' Foscari, Venice) | |
| Date | mardi 25 octobre 2016 | |
| Heure | 12h15 | |
| Salle | L208 (Bâtiment Candolle) | |
| Description |
Modern Eastern Armenian is a SOV language. The inflected verb however can also occupy the
second position, according to the well-known V2 typology. In these cases, the interpretation of the
phrase preceding the verb is obligatorily a focused one. The V2 word order is found both with
contrastive focus and informational focus, for instance in question-answering contexts. V3 – or V4
etc – orders are also possible, provided that the phrases preceding the focused one are base
generated in the left periphery of the clause. We will also discuss the interaction of focus with
indefinites and describe the properties of stress in the various focus conditions.
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