Vieri Samek-Lodovici

The Interaction of Focus and Givenness in Italian Clause Structure

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780198737926
• ISBN-10: 0198737920
• Artikelnr.: 42679042

Autorenporträt

Vieri Samek-Lodovici is a Reader in theoretical linguistics at University College London. He has published several articles on the syntax of focalization and its interaction with prosody and discourse givenness. He has also worked on a wide range of other topics, including argument structure, agreement, optimality theory, and the relation between optimality theory and minimalism. At the beginning of his career, he worked for several years as a computational linguist.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Marginalization
3: Contrastive focus and marginalization
4: Right dislocation
5: Contrastive focus and right dislocation
6: The role of prosody
Appendix A: Distribution and licensing of Italian N-words
Appendix B: Evidence for leftward right dislocation
Appendix C: Irrelevance of pp phrasing for the analysis of marginalization and left-shift