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Record Nr.

UNINA9910134932603321

Autore

Samek-Lodovici Vieri

Titolo

The interaction of focus, givenness, and prosody : a study of Italian clause structure / / Vieri Samek-Lodovici [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-180145-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics

Disciplina

455

Soggetti

Italian language - Clauses

Perspective (Linguistics)

Italian language - Versification

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

An in-depth investigation of contrastive focalisation in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases.