Structures, Strategies and Beyond

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Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

Elisa Di Domenico Cornelia Hamann Simona Matteini(Editor)

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Published on 27. August 2015

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Structures, Strategies and Beyond
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction
1. The architecture of the computational component
2. The realization of structure relative to discourse and referential dependencies: Focus, the vP periphery, and pronominal reference
3. Complex clauses in linguistic theory and acquisition: The role of intervention
References
Problems of projection
References
Notes on labeling and subject positions
0. Introduction
1. Background: Labeling, freezing, and maximality
2. The status of subjects
3. Subject-object asymmetries
4. Lack of fixed subject effects in Null Subject Languages
5. Freezing effects in the low focus position
6. An apparent violation of freezing: "Extraction" from the focus of clefts
7. Halting, complements, and specifiers
References
On a PP/DP asymmetry in extraction
1. Introduction
2. The 'no extraction' account
3. A revised perspective on subject islands
3.1 The selectivity of subject island effects
3.2 Subject islands from a top-down perspective
4. The PP/DP asymmetry: Experimental evidence
4.1 Experimental set-up
4.2 Results
4.3 Discussion
5. Explaining the DP/PP asymmetry
6. Summary and further prospects
References
Augmentative, pejorative, diminutive and endearing heads in the extended nominal projection
1. Introduction
2. The position of the augmentative, pejorative, diminutive and endearing heads
2.1 The augmentative, pejorative, diminutive and endearing suffixes of Italian
2.2 Notes on the diminutive and endearing suffixes of German, Piapoco and Russian
2.2.1 German
2.2.2 Piapoco
2.2.3 Russian
2.3 The position of the four heads in the extended nominal projection
2.3.1 The diminutive and augmentative particles of Nankina and Fuyug
2.3.2 The functional adjective little in English and its order wrt other adjectives
References
A note on parallels between agreement and intervention
1. Introduction
2. Agreement with a gente
3. Intervention effects: The parallel with agreement
4. Concluding remarks
References
Locality effects in Italian verbal morphology
1. Introduction
2. Basic properties of Italian verbal morphosyntax
3. Irregular perfect forms
4. Alternations in the Perfect
5. Past Participle
6. Italian deverbal nominalizations built on the Past Participle
7. Conclusion
References
Be careful how you use the left periphery
1. Information structure and the left periphery
2. Making most (too much?) of the CP periphery: The movement derivation of gapping
2.1 The pattern
2.2 A left periphery derivation of gapping: Implementations
2.2.1 Left-peripheral movement and ellipsis
2.2.2 The nature of the left-peripheral movement
2.2.2.1 The articulated CP. Given that the movement of the object to SpecFocP in (12d) is driven by information structure (from now on abbreviated as IS) requirements, it would at first sight appear to be an instantiation of regular A´-movement illustrate
2.2.2.2 Multiple specifiers in the left periphery. Aelbrecht (2007)'s left-peripheral analysis does not deploy the cartographic left periphery. Differently from Vanden Wyngaerd, she assumes that all gapped constituents are moved to the specifier positions
3. The distribution of gapping
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Non-finite domains
3.3 Finite clauses
3.3.1 Adverbial clauses
3.3.2 Complement clauses of factive verbs
3.3.3 Other finite domains with a 'deficient' left periphery
3.4 Gapping with wh-remnants
3.5 Intermediate conclusions
4. The alternative
4.1 Gapping: Extraction and VP ellipsis
4.2 A cartographic reworking: Exploring the low left periphery
4.2.1 A vP periphery
5. Conclusion
References
Exhaustivity operators and fronted focus in Italian
Introduction
1. Information focus and exhaustivity operators
2. Contrastive focus and association with contrast
3. The semantics of "association with contrast"
4. Some empirical and theoretical refinements
References
Some notes on clefting and fronting
1. Introduction
2. The correlation between FF and CC
2.1 Complementarity and specialization
2.2 The Focus projections of clefts
3. The Sicilian experiment
3.1 Clefts in answers to questions
3.2 Clefts with contrastive focus
4. Focus projections in the analysis of clefts
5. Conclusions
References
A case of focal adverb preposing in French
1. Introduction
2. Discourse interpretation
3. Word order after sentence-initial ainsi
4. Sentence-initial focal ainsi 'in this way' has undergone movement
5. The position of preposed focal ainsi
5.1 Preposed focal ainsi 'in this way' is in the left periphery
5.2 Preposed focal ainsi 'in this way' is not in SpecTP
6. Focus-preposing of ainsi 'in this way' is a main clause phenomenon
6.1 The data
6.2 Syntactic analysis
7. Conclusion
References
Transferring strategies and the nature of transfer
1. Introduction
2. Answering strategies
3. Some considerations on transfer
4. On the transfer of strategies
5. Concluding remarks
References
Resolving pronominal anaphora in real-time
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Participants
3. Experiment 1: The picture verification task
3.1 Material
3.2 Procedure and coding
3.3 Results
3.4 Interim discussion
4. Experiment 2: Self-paced reading
4.1 Material
4.2 Procedure
4.3 Coding and analysis
4.4 Results
4.4.1 Null subject condition
4.4.2 Overt pronoun condition
4.5 Interim discussion
5. Discussion and conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
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On the comprehension and production of passive sentences and relative clauses by Italian university students with dyslexia
1. Introduction
2. Object relatives and passives in language impairment and dyslexia
3. The study
3.1 Participants
3.2 Procedure
3.3 The four tasks: Materials, coding, and results
3.3.1 Relative clause comprehension task
3.3.2 Results
3.3.3 Relative clause production task
3.3.4 Coding
3.3.5 Results
3.3.6 Answering strategies in targeted object relatives
3.3.7 Passive sentence comprehension task
3.3.8 Results
3.3.9 Passive sentence production task
3.3.10 Coding
3.3.11 Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Relatively easy relatives
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Participants
2.2 Material and procedure
2.3 General method of assessment
2.4 Statistical analyses
3. Results
4. Discussion
References
Intervention effects in the spontaneous production of relative clauses in (a)typical language development of French children and adolescents
1. Introduction: Relative clause production and computational complexity
2. Intervention in relative clauses
3. Methods to study intervention
4. A study of spontaneous production in French children and adolescents with typical and atypical development
4.1 Method
4.2 Results
3. Summary & discussion
References
Minimality effects in children's passives
1. Introduction
2. A minimality-based approach to passives in children and adults
2.1 Are children frozen? The UFH and the AIH
2.3 The role of maturation
3. Formally reflexive clitic constructions in French and Italian
3.1 Children's early use of reflexives (FRCCs) in Italian and French
4. Children's passives: The role of discourse features
4.1 Crain, Thornton & Murasugi (2009): +WH Feature
4.2 Pinker, Lebeaux & Frost (1987) - Topic feature
4.3 O'Brien, Grolla & Lillo-Martin (2006) - Topic feature
5. Passives of non-actional verbs
6. Summary and conclusion
References
Subject intervention in free relatives
1. Introduction
2. Sketch of a theory of labeling
3. Relatives as relabeling configurations
4. On the absence of 'what' free relatives in Italian and similar gaps in English and French
5. Gross Minimality and the special status of the root
6. Subject intervention in root questions as a Gross Minimality violation
7. Subject intervention in free relatives as a Gross Minimality violation
8. When subject intervention is not observed
9. Conclusion: Back to children
References
Relative clauses in Cimbrian
1. Introduction
2. State of the art on Cimbrian relatives and the complementizer system
3. The element da in Bavarian and Hessian
4. Da in Cimbrian
4.1 Main interrogative clauses
4.2 Embedded interrogative clauses
4.3 Main declarative clauses
4.4 Embedded declarative clauses
4.5 Da in relative clauses
5. Cimbrian da as a Ground marker
5.1 Cimbrian da is not Bavarian da
5.2 Da and subjects
6. Concluding remarks
References
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