Current studies in Italian syntax : : essays offered to Lorenzo Renzi / / edited by Guglielmo Cinque and Giampaolo Salvi.

• Superior document: North-Holland linguistic series ; 59
• TeilnehmendeR: Cinque, Guglielmo,; Salvi, Giampaolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Bingley, England : : Emerald Publishing,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: North-Holland linguistic series ; 59.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 326 p. ); ill.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The sixteen contributions which make up this volume are representative of the research currently carried out in Italy on Italian and, more generally, Romance syntax (in the generative tradition). The essays were specially collected to pay homage to Professor Lorenzo Renzi, a scholar who has since the 1960s promoted and shaped the study of Italian syntax in Italy, both through his own work and through a collective enterprise which culminated in the publication of the Grande Grammatica Italiana di Consultazione (3 vol., Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988-1995). Most of the contributors to this volume were engaged in that enterprise as young, unemployed linguists, and are now among the most prominent specialists in the field of Italian syntax.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Syntactic intervention effects on Italian polarity items, P. Acquaviva -- Speculations on the possible source of expletive negation in Italian comparative clauses, A. Belletti -- The position of topic and focus on the left periphery, P. Beninca -- Aspect prefixes in verbal periphrases in Italian and other Romance languages, F. Benucci -- "Propulsive" tenses in modern Italian fictional prose, P.M. Bertinetto -- A second thought on emarginazione: destressing vs. "right dislocation", A. Cardinaletti -- "Restructuring" and the order of aspectual and root modal heads, G. Cinque -- The birth of a functional category: from Latin ILLE to the Romance article and personal pronoun, G. Giusti -- Romance causatives and dynamic antisymmetry, M.T. Guasti, A. Moro -- A note on clitic doubling in French, R.S. Kayne -- Either "subject oriented" or merely sentential, L. Lonzi -- The syntax of object clitics: si in Italian dialects, M.R. Manzini, L.M. Savoia -- Complementizer deletion and verb movement in standard Italian, C. Poletto -- On the position "int(errogative)" in the left periphery of the clause, L. Rizzi -- The two sentence structures of Early Romance, G. Salvi -- Evidence for a null locative in Italian, C.M. Tortora.