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This paper is about Romance demonstrative-reinforcer constructions, i.e. constructions of the type of ‘this here’ or ‘that there’. First, I describe these constructions by means of person features, then I show how these features combine in the derivation of the attested demonstrative-reinforcer constructions in Italo-Romance. Finally, I propose that person features are inactive in the syntax of these constructions, as suggested by the shortcomings of Agree-based accounts. Instead, I point to a non-core syntactical analysis of these constructions.
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This page is a summary of: Demonstrative-reinforcer constructions and the syntactic role of deictic features, Linguistics in the Netherlands, November 2019, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/avt.00032.ter.
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