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oapen-20.500.12657-327402022-04-26T11:21:07Z 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 bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc::CFGA Semantics & pragmatics bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFK Grammar, syntax & 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. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-10-03 09:09:28 2020-04-01T14:17:55Z 2020-04-01T14:17:55Z 2015 book 606622 OCN: 931531565 9780198737926 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32740 eng Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 606622.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-interaction-of-focus-and-givenness-in-italian-clause-structure-9780198737926 Oxford University Press 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737926.001.0001 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737926.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 ea797600-57ed-4e38-80ac-6526d339aad0 9780198737926 352 Oxford, UK University College London UCL open access
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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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