Structures, Syntactic Computations and Acquisition

ISBN-13: 9780367504625 / Angielski

Adriana Belletti

Opis

This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies through her work.

The volume explores domains of theoretical morphosyntax in the generative tradition and theoretically guided studies on language acquisition. An Introduction specific to this volume contextualizes these contributions within ongoing developments in the field. Part One presents studies inspired by the illuminating interchange between linguistic theory and experimentation in the field of language acquisition, leading to the formulation of explicit research questions tested experimentally and guiding in the proper interpretation of the results. Part Two offers refined, detailed theoretical analyses of domains in which peripheral positions in the clause structures are crucially involved to express discourse contents, in sometimes not standard ways during development.

Demonstrating how refined linguistic analyses play a crucial role in interpretating the peculiar shape of developmental data, this book will be of interest to scholars in syntax, language acquisition, and theoretical linguistics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Relatives and passive object relatives in Italian-speaking children and adults: Intervention in production and comprehension
2. On the acquisition of complex derivations with related considerations on poverty of the stimulus and frequency
3. Topics and passives in Italian-speaking children and adults 　
4. Internal grammar and children's grammatical creativity against poor inputs
5. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description, and the characterization of language development through experimental studies
6. Revisiting the cartography of (Italian) postverbal subjects from different angles with reference to canonicality
7. Labeling (Romance) causatives
8. (Reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian
9. On Fin: Italian che, Japanese no, and the selective properties of the copula in clefts
10. The focus map of clefts: Extraposition and predication
11. Revisiting the CP of clefts
12. On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery
13. Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-topics

Index

O autorze

Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena, Italy. Over the years her main research has focused on generative comparative morphosyntax and on different modes of language acquisition and forms of language pathologies. Her previous publications include Structures and Strategies (2009).