Current Studies in Italian Syntax
Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi
Published on 23. February 2001
Book
Hardback
340 pages
978-0-08-043874-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. Lingua 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 39More details
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English
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United Kingdom
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 156 mm
Width: 234 mm
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653 gr
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978-0-08-043874-0 (9780080438740)
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Content
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. Beninca
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
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. Beninca
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