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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
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2021
Subjects:
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
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax and morphology
Online Access:606622
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