Structures, Strategies and Beyond

Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

Editors

Elisa Di Domenico | University for Foreigners of Perugia

Cornelia Hamann | University of Oldenburg

Simona Matteini | University of Siena

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The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects or comparing different modes of acquisition, as in Adriana Belletti’s work, to whom the volume is dedicated. The papers in the first part (by Chomsky, Rizzi, Bianchi & Chesi, Cinque, Costa, Calabrese) deal with theoretical issues such as labeling, the cartography of structures and the locality of derivations in a broad sense. The papers in the second part (by Haegeman & Lohndal, Delfitto & Fiorin, Cruschina, Lahousse, Di Domenico and Contemori, Dal Pozzo & Matteini) concentrate on the realization of structure relative to discourse, particularly on topic and focus positions in the vP periphery, and on referential dependencies. The third part collects papers (by Cardinaletti & Volpato, Friedmann, Yachini & Szterman, Snyder & Hyams, Hamann & Tuller, Cecchetto & Donati, Grewendorf & Poletto) that specifically target intervention effects in relative clauses as apparent in different structures, different languages, and different populations.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.223

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Preface

Liliane Haegeman | pp. ix–x

Introduction

Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini | pp. xi–xxvi

PART I. The Architecture of the Computational Component

Problems of projection: Extensions

Noam Chomsky | pp. 1–16

Notes on labeling and subject positions

Luigi Rizzi | pp. 17–46

On a PP/DP asymmetry in extraction

Valentina Bianchi and Cristiano Chesi | pp. 47–66

Augmentative, pejorative, diminutive and endearing heads in the extended nominal projection

Guglielmo Cinque | pp. 67–82

A note on parallels between agreement and intervention

João Costa | pp. 83–96

Locality effects in Italian verbal morphology

Andrea Calabrese | pp. 97–132

PART II. The Realization of Structure Relative to Discourse and Referential Dependencies: Focus, the vP periphery, and pronominal reference

Be careful how you use the left periphery

Liliane Haegeman and Terje Lohndal | pp. 135–162

Exhaustivity operators and fronted focus in Italian

Denis Delfitto and Gaetano Fiorin | pp. 163–180

Some notes on clefting and fronting

Silvio Cruschina | pp. 181–208

A case of focal adverb preposing in French

Karen Lahousse | pp. 209–236

Transferring strategies and the nature of transfer

Elisa Di Domenico | pp. 237–256

Resolving pronominal anaphora in real-time: A comparison between Italian native and near-native speakers

Carla Contemori, Lena Dal Pozzo and Simona Matteini | pp. 257–276

PART III. Complex clauses in linguistic theory and acquisition: The role of intervention

On the comprehension and production of passive sentences and relative clauses by Italian university students with dyslexia

Anna Cardinaletti and Francesca Volpato | pp. 279–302

Relatively easy relatives: Children with syntactic SLI avoid intervention

Naama Friedmann, Maya Yachini and Ronit Szterman | pp. 303–320

Intervention effects in the spontaneous production of relative clauses in (a)typical language development of French children and adolescents

Cornelia Hamann and Laurice Tuller | pp. 321–342

Minimality effects in children’s passives

William Snyder and Nina Hyams | pp. 343–368

Subject intervention in free relatives

Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati | pp. 369–392

Relative clauses in Cimbrian

Günther Grewendorf and Cecilia Poletto | pp. 393–416

Index | pp. 417–422

“This volume is an impressive collection of articles by top linguists such as Chomsky, Rizzi and Cinque, who discuss various aspects of the architecture of syntax, by Haegeman, and others on the relationship between syntax and discourse, as well as by Cardinaletti, Tuller, Hyams and many others on language acquisition. Only a collection of essays of this quality could do proper justice to the impressive contribution by Andriana Belletti to theoretical linguistics over the past decades. Many of the articles contained in this book will turn out to play a central role in the respective sub fields in the near future and perusing the book will therefore be a duty as well as a feast for all colleagues and students active in the core sub fields of modern linguistics that are covered in this volume.”

Henk van Riemsdijk, Arezzo

“This extremely inspiring and rich collection of papers should be on every linguist's desk. Grouped along themes that Adriana Belletti has studied in her 40-year career and thereby testifying to the breadth and span of her oeuvre, these 18 original chapters constitute, each and every one, outstanding contributions to linguistics, language acquisition and language pathology. The editors have succeeded in putting together a collection of articles which speak to each other and thus demonstrates the interdependence of the study of formal grammar and its psycholinguistic dimensions.”

Ur Shlonsky

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