Focused verbal inflections in Spanish

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Carlos Muñoz Pérez
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5172-3589
Matías Verdecchia
IIF/SADAF/CONICET & Universidad de Buenos Aires
Spanish allows to focus the Number and Person features of the verbal inflection to produce an interpretation similar to that of a contrastively focused pronoun. This squib discusses two properties distinguishing both phenomena.
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contrastive focus, null subjects, inflection, Spanish

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Muñoz Pérez, Carlos; Verdecchia, Matías. “Focused verbal inflections in Spanish”. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, 2021, vol.VOL 7, pp. 1-4, doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.141.
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