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Author Bocci, Giuliano.

Title The syntax-prosody interface : a cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian / Giuliano Bocci, University of Geneva
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013

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Series Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; v. 204
Linguistik aktuell ; v. 204.
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 cartographic approach and the left periphery of the clause in Italian -- 1.1. cartographic approach -- 1.2. Background: The fine structure of the left periphery in Italian -- 1.2.1. Some properties opposing topic and focus in the left periphery in Italian -- 1.3. criterial model -- ch. 2 right periphery of the clause -- 2.1. Postverbal focus -- 2.2. (Clitic) Right Dislocation -- 2.2.1. (Clitic) Right Dislocation is not a device to assign focus -- 2.2.2. Right-Dislocated Topics are clause-internal topics -- ch. 3 Crosslinguistic variation: Uniqueness versus multiplicity of focus -- 3.1. Alternative semantics and focus in Italian -- 3.1.1. Alternative semantics for focus -- 3.1.2. Farmer's sentences -- 3.2. Issues on uniqueness of focus -- 3.2.1. Focus-sensitive operators and uniqueness of focus -- 3.2.2. Focus uniqueness, focus coordination -- 3.2.3. Some speculations on uniqueness of focus and crosslinguistic variation -- ch. 4 Focus on subjects in preverbal position -- 4.1. Two hypotheses -- 4.2. Contrastive focalization in Rural Florentine -- 4.3. Ne-cliticization test -- 4.4. Focused preverbal subjects and Weak Crossover -- 4.5. Focused subjects, Principle C, and reconstruction -- 4.6. Discussion and conclusion -- ch. 5 Focus on Topics: The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics -- 5.1. strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics -- 5.2. Contexts for Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation -- 5.3. Contrastive Focus Left Dislocation is not contrastive topicalization -- 5.4. Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation as Clitic Left Dislocated Topics prosodically focused in situ? -- 5.5. Focus, Topic, and Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation in reduced left peripheries -- 5.6. Analysis of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation: Head movement from TopĀ° to FocĀ° -- 5.7. Postfocal Clitic Left Dislocated Topics, definiteness, and CFLD -- 5.8. Conclusion -- ch. 6 From syntax to prosody -- 6.1. Introduction to prosody -- 6.2. Mapping rules -- 6.2.1. Two sets of rules -- 6.2.2. Default mapping rules -- 6.2.3. Feature-sensitive mapping rules -- 6.2.4. note on the notion of nuclear pitch accent -- 6.3. Experimental procedures and corpora -- 6.3.1. Experiment A -- 6.3.2. Experiment B -- 6.4. Pitch accents and types of focus -- 6.4.1. L+H* on Contrastive Focus -- 6.4.2. H+L* on broad and narrow informational focus -- 6.4.3. Theoretical implications -- 6.4.4. last pitch accent of the focus constituent and the projection of focus -- 6.5. Focus Defining Rule and the role of L* in Tuscan Italian -- 6.5.1. pitch contour on postfocal material -- 6.5.2. L*-association is ruled by the linear position of focus -- 6.6. Focus and phrasing -- 6.7. Focus, main prominence, and main wh-questions in Italian -- 6.8. On the phonetic reality of postfocal phrasal heads -- 6.9. On the (non- )isomorphism between the prosodic representation and the syntactic and information structure -- 6.10. Summary
Summary This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and prosodic properties. It is argued that a restricted set of discourse-related properties are inserted in the numeration as formal features. These discourse-related features drive the syntactic derivation and the formation of the prosodic representation in compliance with the T-model of grammar. Based on th
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Subject Italian language -- Syntax
Italian language -- Dialects -- Syntax
Italian language -- Phonetics
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Italian.
Italian language -- Dialects -- Syntax
Italian language -- Phonetics
Italian language -- Syntax
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012044545
ISBN 9789027272294
9027272298