Synopses & Reviews
This volume of essays offers a wide-ranging comparative analysis of Italian syntax.
Synopsis
'This volume of essays by a leading theoretical syntactician explores a wide range of aspects of Italian syntax, and compares Italian with the syntax of other Romance and also Germanic languages. It will be welcomed by all those working on Italian syntax, and on theoretical syntax more broadly.\n
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Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. On extraction from NP in Italian; 2. On the theory of relative clauses and markedness; 3. Bare quantifiers: quantified NPs and the notion of operator at S-structure; 4. On si constructions and the theory of arb; 5. Ci si; 6. On a difference between English and Italian 'Complement Object Deletion" constructions; 7. Ergative adjectives and the lexicalist hypothesis; 8. The pseudo-relative and ACC-ing constructions after verbs of perception; 9. On leftward movement of tutto in Italian; 10. On the evidence for partial N movement in the Romance DP; References; Index.