Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody - A Study of Italian Clause Structure

Informationen zum Autor Vieri Samek-Lodovici is a Reader in theoretical linguistics at University College London. He has published several articles on the syntax of focalization and its interaction with prosody and discourse givenness. He has also worked on a wide range of other topics, including argument structure, agreement, optimality theory, and the relation between optimality theory and minimalism. At the beginning of his career, he worked for several years as a computational linguist. Klappentext This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date.Open access funded by UCL Zusammenfassung This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Marginalization 3: Contrastive focus and marginalization 4: Right dislocation 5: Contrastive focus and right dislocation 6: The role of prosody Appendix A: Distribution and licensing of Italian N-words Appendix B: Evidence for leftward right dislocation Appendix C: Irrelevance of pp phrasing for the analysis of marginalization and left-shift

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• Authors: Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Vieri (Reader in Linguistics Samek-Lodovici, Samek-Lodovici Vieri
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9780198737926
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873792-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Theoretical
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Italian, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics