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

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

This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression is systematically affected by the syntactic expression of discourse-givenness. The proposed analysis disentangles the properties genuinely associated with contrastive focalizati...

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Main Author: Samek-Lodovici, Vieri (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2015
Subjects:
Semantics & pragmatics
Grammar, syntax & morphology
prosody
givenness
syntax
focus evacuation
prosody interface
contrastive focus
marginalization
right dislocation
left periphery
italian
p-movement
Adverb
Clitic
Clitic doubling
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Italy
Object (grammar)
Social exclusion
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