Structures and Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780415962018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 380 str.

Belletti Adrian; Adriana Belletti

Opis

Addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax to word order issues and their status in discourse contexts.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Clause Structure and Verb Related Syntax  Chapter 1: Generalized Verb movement  Chapter 2: Agreement and Case in Past Participial Clauses in Italian  Chapter 3: Verb positions: Evidence from Italian  Chapter 4: (Past) Participle Agreement  Chapter 5: Italian/Romance Clitics: Structure and Derivation  Part II: The Syntax of (some) Discourse Related Strategies  Chapter 6: Aspects of the Low IP Area  Chapter 7: Inversion as Focalization and Related Matters  Chapter 8: Extended Doubling and the vP-periphery  Chapter 9: Kinds of Evidence for Linguistic Theory  Chapter 10: Answering Strategies: New Information Subjects and the Nature of Clefts  Chapter 11: Pronouns and the Edge of the Clause

O autorze

Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena. She has been a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and has taught at the University of Geneva. Her publications include: The Case of Unaccusatives; Generalized Verb Movement. Aspects of Verb Syntax; Aspects of the Low IP area.