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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| description | 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 focalization from those determined by the most productive operations affecting discourse given phrases at the right periphery, namely right dislocation and marginalization. On this basis, it shows that in the default case contrastive focalization occurs in situ and that instances of left-peripheral focalization only arise when focus obligatorily evacuates a larger right-dislocating phrase, giving rise to a distribution of leftward-moved foci that generalizes well beyond the cases examined in Rizzi (1997) and most literature since. In its final chapter, the book examines the syntax–prosody interface, showing how focalization in situ and other key properties follow from the prosodic constraints governing stress placement, thus reinterpreting and extending Zubizarreta’s (1998) analysis of p-movement and the role of prosody in shaping syntax. Overall, this book offers an evidence-backed radical departure from current views of focalization based on a fixed focus projection at the left periphery of the clause. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-316832025-07-30T10:20:45Z The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure Samek-Lodovici, Vieri prosody givenness syntax focus evacuation prosody interface contrastive focus marginalization right dislocation left periphery italian p-movement Adverb Clitic Clitic doubling Creative Commons license 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 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 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 focalization from those determined by the most productive operations affecting discourse given phrases at the right periphery, namely right dislocation and marginalization. On this basis, it shows that in the default case contrastive focalization occurs in situ and that instances of left-peripheral focalization only arise when focus obligatorily evacuates a larger right-dislocating phrase, giving rise to a distribution of leftward-moved foci that generalizes well beyond the cases examined in Rizzi (1997) and most literature since. In its final chapter, the book examines the syntax–prosody interface, showing how focalization in situ and other key properties follow from the prosodic constraints governing stress placement, thus reinterpreting and extending Zubizarreta’s (1998) analysis of p-movement and the role of prosody in shaping syntax. Overall, this book offers an evidence-backed radical departure from current views of focalization based on a fixed focus projection at the left periphery of the clause. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T14:17:55Z 2015 book 606622 OCN: 931531565 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32740 9780198737926 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31683 eng Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737926.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737926.001.0001 db4e319f-ca9f-449a-bcf2-37d7c6f885b1 University College London 9780198737926 352 Oxford, UK open access |
| spellingShingle | prosody givenness syntax focus evacuation prosody interface contrastive focus marginalization right dislocation left periphery italian p-movement Adverb Clitic Clitic doubling Creative Commons license 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 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 Samek-Lodovici, Vieri The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure |
| title | The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure |
| title_full | The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure |
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| title_short | The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure |
| title_sort | interaction of focus givenness and prosody a study of italian clause structure |
| topic | prosody givenness syntax focus evacuation prosody interface contrastive focus marginalization right dislocation left periphery italian p-movement Adverb Clitic Clitic doubling Creative Commons license 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 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 |
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