Current Studies in Italian Syntax: Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi (North-Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations): 59 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0080438741 ISBN 13: 9780080438740

Casa editrice: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2001

Riassunto

The sixteen contributions which make up this volume are representative of the research currently carried out in Italy on Italian and, more generally, Romance syntax (in the generative tradition). The essays were specially collected to pay homage to Professor Lorenzo Renzi, a scholar who has since the 1960s promoted and shaped the study of Italian syntax in Italy, both through his own work and through a collective enterprise which culminated in the publication of the Grande Grammatica Italiana di Consultazione (3 vol., Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988-1995). Most of the contributors to this volume were engaged in that enterprise as young, unemployed linguists, and are now among the most prominent specialists in the field of Italian syntax.

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Recensione

Sandra Paoli, University of Manchester
This publication gathers 16 state-of-the-art contributions by leading scholars, and provides the reader with an insight into some of the issues that have been the object of much research in Italian Syntax. It's invaluable both for the way the issues are presented within the scene of the relevant analyses they have received, relating them to previous and/or parallel studies in the field, and for the reflection points that the data brought forward suggest.
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Francisco Ordonez, State University of New York at Stony Brook
This book is an excellent and refreshing collection of essays that will be of major interest for linguists working in the Romance languages and in syntactic theory. Researchers who are more intrested in descriptive aspects of Italian will find that the range of data is quite varied and that all contributions are well grounded empirically. For those interested in more theoretical aspects of syntax, this book is an excellent example of the innovative research being done in the sphere of Italian syntax.
Journal of Linguistics, Volume 39

Contenuti

Preface. Syntactic intervention effects on Italian polarity items (P. Acquaviva). Speculations on the possible source of expletive negation in Italian comparative clauses (A. Belletti). The position of topic and focus on the left periphery (P. Benincà). Aspect prefixes in verbal periphrases in Italian and other Romance languages (F. Benucci). "Propulsive" tenses in modern Italian fictional prose (P.M. Bertinetto). A second thought on emarginazione : destressing vs. "right dislocation" (A. Cardinaletti). "Restructuring" and the order of aspectual and root modal heads (G. Cinque). The birth of a functional category: from Latin ILLE to the Romance article and personal pronoun (G. Giusti). Romance causatives and dynamic antisymmetry (M.T. Guasti, A. Moro). A note on clitic doubling in French (R.S. Kayne). Either "subject oriented" or merely sentential (L. Lonzi). The syntax of object clitics: si in Italian dialects (M.R. Manzini, L.M. Savoia). Complementizer deletion and verb movement in standard Italian (C. Poletto). On the position "int(errogative)" in the left periphery of the clause (L. Rizzi). The two sentence structures of Early Romance (G. Salvi). Evidence for a null locative in Italian (C.M. Tortora).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0080438741
• ISBN 13: 9780080438740
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Redattore: Cinque Guglielmo, Salvi Giampaolo
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile