The syntax-prosody Interface [[electronic resource] ] : a cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian / / Giuliano Bocci

• Autore: Bocci Giuliano
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 455
• Soggetto topico: Italian language - Syntax; Italian language - Dialects - Syntax; Italian language - Phonetics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Syntax-Prosody Interface; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The cartographic approach and the left periphery of the clause in Italian; 1.1 The cartographic approach; 1.2 Background: The fine structure of the left periphery in Italian; 1.2.1 Some properties opposing topic and focus in the left periphery in Italian; 1.3 The criterial model; 2. The right periphery of the clause; 2.1 Postverbal focus; 2.2 (Clitic) Right Dislocation; 2.2.1 (Clitic) Right Dislocation is not a device to assign focus ; 2.2.2 Right-Dislocated Topics are clause-internal topics 3. Cross linguistic variation: Uniqueness versus multiplicity of focus; 3.1 Alternative semantics and focus in Italian; 3.1.1 Alternative semantics for focus; 3.1.2 Farmer's sentences; 3.2 Issues on uniqueness of focus; 3.2.1 Focus-sensitive operators and uniqueness of focus; 3.2.2 Focus uniqueness, focus coordination; 3.2.3 Some speculations on uniqueness of focus and cross linguistic variation; 4. Focus on subjects in preverbal position; 4.1 Two hypotheses; 4.2 Contrastive focalization in Rural Florentine; 4.3 Ne-cliticization test ; 4.4 Focused preverbal subjects and Weak Crossover 4.5 Focused subjects, Principle C, and reconstruction; 4.6 Discussion and conclusion; 5. Focus on Topics: The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics; 5.1 The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics; 5.2 Contexts for Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation; 5.3 Contrastive Focus Left Dislocation is not contrastive topicalization; 5.4 Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation as Clitic Left Dislocated Topics prosodically focused in ; 5.5 Focus, Topic, and Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation in reduced left peripheries 5.6 Analysis of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation: Head movement from Top0 to Foc0; 5.7 Postfocal Clitic Left Dislocated Topics, definiteness, and CFLD; 5.8 Conclusion; 6. From syntax to prosody; 6.1 Introduction to prosody; 6.2 Mapping rules; 6.2.1 Two sets of rules; 6.2.2 Default mapping rules; 6.2.3 Feature-sensitive mapping rules; 6.2.4 A note on the notion of nuclear pitch accent; 6.3 Experimental procedures and corpora; 6.3.1 Experiment A; 6.3.2 Experiment B; 6.4 Pitch accents and types of focus ; 6.4.1 L+H* on Contrastive Focus 6.4.2 H+L* on broad and narrow informational focus; 6.4.3 Theoretical implications; 6.4.4 The last pitch accent of the focus constituent and the projection of focus; 6.5 The Focus Defining Rule and the role of L* in Tuscan Italian; 6.5.1 The pitch contour on postfocal material; 6.5.2 L*-association is ruled by the linear position of focus; 6.6 Focus and phrasing; 6.7 Focus, main prominence, and main wh-questions in Italian; 6.8 On the phonetic reality of postfocal phrasal heads ; 6.9 On the (non-)isomorphism between the prosodic representation and the syntactic and information s
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and prosodic properties. It is argued that a restricted set of discourse-related properties are inserted in the numeration as formal features. These discourse-related features drive the syntactic derivation and the formation of the prosodic representation in compliance with the T-model of grammar. Based on the
• Titolo autorizzato: The syntax-prosody Interface
• ISBN: 90-272-7229-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463117503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 204.