Linguistic Variation: Structure and Interpretation / / ed. by Ludovico Franco, Paolo Lorusso.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Adger, David,; Bafile, Laura,; Baldi, Benedetta,; Bayer, Josef,; Belletti, Adriana,; Calabrese, Andrea,; Cardinaletti, Anna,; Cecchetto, Carlo,; Chomsky, Noam,; Cinque, Guglielmo,; Cocchi, Gloria,; Craenenbroeck, Jeroen van,; Di Domenico, Elisa,; Dikken, Marcel den,; Donati, Caterina,; Fiéis, Alexandra,; Franco, Ludovico,; Frascarelli, Mara,; Garzonio, Jacopo,; Giusti, Giuliana,; Grimaldi, Mirko,; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.,; Kayne, Richard S.,; Koot, Hans van de,; Lai, Rosangela,; Ledgeway, Adam,; Lorusso, Paolo,; Madeira, Ana,; Mensching, Guido,; Nash, Léa,; Neeleman, Ad,; Pescarini, Diego,; Ramaglia, Francesca,; Rizzi, Luigi,; Roussou, Anna,; Savoia, Leonardo M.,; Taraldsen, Tarald,; Wexler, Kenneth,
• HerausgeberIn: Franco, Ludovico,; Lorusso, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 132
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 724 p.)

In this volume scholars honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. The essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- A labelling solution to a curious EPP effect -- The question of overgeneration in Element Theory -- Linguistic and pragmatic procedures in the political discourse -- Why doubling discourse particles? -- (Reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian -- Irregular verbal morphology and locality -- Multiple agreement in Southern Italian dialects -- Relabeling participial constructions -- Puzzles about phases -- On the double-headed analysis of “Headless” relative clauses -- Bantu class prefixes: Towards a cross-categorial account -- Differential object marking and the structure of transitive clauses -- Countability and the /s/ morpheme in English -- (Im)proper prepositions in (Old and Modern) Italian -- Not even a crumb of negation: on mica in Old Italian -- From brain noise to syntactic structures: A formal proposal within the oscillatory rhythms perspective -- When seem wants to control -- Some thoughts on one and two and other numerals -- Stress shift under cliticization in the Sardinian transitional area -- The causative construction in the dialects of southern Italy and the phonologysyntax interface -- Lexical parametrization and early subjects in L1 Italian -- Inflected infinitives in Portuguese -- Some notes on the Sardinian complementizer systems -- Structural source of person split -- The non-existence of sub-lexical scope -- An emergentist view on functional classes -- The (information) structure of existentials -- Che and weak islands -- Complement clauses: Case and argumenthood -- The internal structure of Nguni nominal class prefixes -- Expletives, locatives, and subject doubling -- Arbitrary control instead of obligatory control in temporal adjuncts in Child Grammar: An ATTRACT analysis -- Language Index -- Subject Index