Adriana Belletti

Structures and Strategies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Following crucial insights on the functional structure of the clause and recent developments within the cartographic projects and minimalism, this book addresses various central themes in Italian and Romance syntax ranging from verb syntax to word order issues and their status in discourse contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780415962018
• ISBN-10: 0415962013
• Artikelnr.: 23800553

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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