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ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF PRONOMINAL DPs* ANNA CARDINALETTI (University of Venice) August 1993 to appear in THE ... I have it read b. weil du s Auto übersehen hast (Abraham 1991) because you the car overseen have (10) a. da Marie... more
ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF PRONOMINAL DPs* ANNA CARDINALETTI (University of Venice) August 1993 to appear in THE ... I have it read b. weil du s Auto übersehen hast (Abraham 1991) because you the car overseen have (10) a. da Marie d'joengers t ...
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This study attempts to explain a systematic phenomenon that has been described in interlanguage grammars crosslinguistically: Null-Prep, which consists of omitting the obligatory preposition in certain movement constructions. We propose... more
This study attempts to explain a systematic phenomenon that has been described in interlanguage grammars crosslinguistically: Null-Prep, which consists of omitting the obligatory preposition in certain movement constructions. We propose that Null-Prep is not related to lack of knowledge of wh-movement, as previously assumed, but to structural complexity; indeed, we consider Null-Prep a movement-derived structure. With evidence from prepositional relative clauses, wh-interrogatives, and sluicing constructions in first language (L1) and second language (L2) Spanish (English and Arabic L1s), we predict the potential appearance of the Null-Prep with a two-way complexity hierarchy that takes into account the syntactic position displaced, as well as its derivational complexity, in such a way that we calculate Null-Prep to occur more often in Relative Clauses, followed by Sluicing, and finally by Questions. This scalar phenomenon uniformly applies to all participants, native and L2 learner...
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Pronouns have a complex grammar. They are at the crossroad of two rather ill-understood systems: indexicality and deficiency. On the one hand, knowledge of pronouns is knowledge of an intricate “referential” system, whereby a part of a... more
Pronouns have a complex grammar. They are at the crossroad of two rather ill-understood systems: indexicality and deficiency. On the one hand, knowledge of pronouns is knowledge of an intricate “referential” system, whereby a part of a sentence can “corefer” with another, or “be a variable linked to” another, or again “point to the context” of the utterance. These intuitive descriptions of indexicality have vexed scholars in their attempt to render them precise, ever since the dawn of research on language. For instance, in the first century AC, Appolonius Dyskolus came to distinguish an anaphoric use (secondary acquaintance) from a deictic use (primary acquaintance) of pronouns. This distinction remains a lively source of bewilderment for scholars in the end of the twentieth century through discussions of “accidental coreference”, “donkey-sentences”, “telescoping”, and other such puzzles.
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Subjects and Clause Structure Anna Cardinaletti University of Venice December 1995; to appear in L. Haegeman (ed.) The New Comparative Syntax, Longman, London 1. Introduction One of the topics which has most inspired comparative syntactic... more
Subjects and Clause Structure Anna Cardinaletti University of Venice December 1995; to appear in L. Haegeman (ed.) The New Comparative Syntax, Longman, London 1. Introduction One of the topics which has most inspired comparative syntactic research is the difference ...
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This chapter discusses a difference between Germanic and Romance languages in the syntax of subjects: While in Germanic wh-questions, full subjects can occur in the canonical, preverbal position (English: where has John gone?), in... more
This chapter discusses a difference between Germanic and Romance languages in the syntax of subjects: While in Germanic wh-questions, full subjects can occur in the canonical, preverbal position (English: where has John gone?), in Romance, this is impossible, in either order (Italian: *dove è Gianni andato? / *dove Gianni è andato?). The same restriction holds in the Romance languages with overt subject pronouns. Verb – subject inversion is not allowed with full subjects but only with pronouns (French: *où est Jean allé? vs. où est-il allé?). Furthermore, full subjects cannot precede the verb when it does not raise across the subject; only pronouns can (French: *où Jean est allé? vs. où il est allé?). The difference between Germanic and Romance languages is attributed here to the interaction between verb movement and subject placement. In Germanic, the verb/auxiliary raises to C in wh-questions and makes subject movement to Spec-Subj necessary to satisfy the Subject Criterion. In Romance, the verb/auxiliary raises to lower positions, which makes the movement of full subject DPs impossible in wh-questions. Deficient pronouns are exempted from the Subject Criterion, which makes them possible in wh-questions in all languages.
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Page 171. Anna Cardinaletti and Michal Starke The typology of structural deficiency: A case study of the three classes of pronouns1 1. On the study of pronouns 1.1. The notion of" classes of pronouns" It is a general... more
Page 171. Anna Cardinaletti and Michal Starke The typology of structural deficiency: A case study of the three classes of pronouns1 1. On the study of pronouns 1.1. The notion of" classes of pronouns" It is a general property of language that words fall into classes. ...
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Natural languages dispose of two ways of realizing syntactic negation: (1) functional projection in the extended projection ofthe verb (NegP); (2) "adverbi-al " negation in small clauses and nominals,... more
Natural languages dispose of two ways of realizing syntactic negation: (1) functional projection in the extended projection ofthe verb (NegP); (2) "adverbi-al " negation in small clauses and nominals, adjoined to AP and NP, respectively. Relevant evidedence concernc the co-...
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Anna Cardinaletti & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Venice & University of Geneva/MIT) NEGATION m SMALL CLAUSES Introduction In the last years, the syntax of negation has received much attention in... more
Anna Cardinaletti & Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Venice & University of Geneva/MIT) NEGATION m SMALL CLAUSES Introduction In the last years, the syntax of negation has received much attention in generative grammar. In several works, negation is taken to be a functional ...
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ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the comprehension and the production of passive sentences in Italian-speaking children (aged 3 years, 4 months to 6 years, 2 months) analyzing both the variables observed in previous studies on other... more
ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the comprehension and the production of passive sentences in Italian-speaking children (aged 3 years, 4 months to 6 years, 2 months) analyzing both the variables observed in previous studies on other languages (verb type and presence of the by-phrase) versus an Italian-specific variable: the use of auxiliary venire “to come.” Because Italian venire is only possible in verbal passives, this property is crucial to determine whether children have full competence of the (verbal) passive structure. The high percentage of accuracy in the comprehension of sentences containing venire suggests that the eventive passive interpretation is fully available in child language, even in 3- to 4-year-old children. Moreover, young children produce passive sentences with either auxiliary venire or essere “to be,” also adding the by-phrase, thus proving unambiguously that children control verbal passive sentences from very early on.
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... in our corpus and the data found in an electronic corpus of spoken Italian (Lessico di frequenza dell'italiano parlato, LIP ... implies a complex nominal structure which is often favoured by the presence of further specifications... more
... in our corpus and the data found in an electronic corpus of spoken Italian (Lessico di frequenza dell'italiano parlato, LIP ... implies a complex nominal structure which is often favoured by the presence of further specifications (possessive adjectives, relative clauses, demonstratives ...
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1 Introduction 2 The structure of quantified constructions 2.1 EST proposals 2.1.1 The Hidden Partitive Hypothesis (HPH) 2.1.2 The Simple Noun Phrase Hypothesis (SH) 2.1.3 The first element of the partitive construction 2.2 GB proposals... more
1 Introduction 2 The structure of quantified constructions 2.1 EST proposals 2.1.1 The Hidden Partitive Hypothesis (HPH) 2.1.2 The Simple Noun Phrase Hypothesis (SH) 2.1.3 The first element of the partitive construction 2.2 GB proposals 2.3 The functional structure of quantified ...
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" Semi-lexical" motion verbs in Romance and Germanic Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti 1. Introduction The distinction between lexical and functional elements is a central one in... more
" Semi-lexical" motion verbs in Romance and Germanic Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti 1. Introduction The distinction between lexical and functional elements is a central one in current grammatical theory. This distinction is often based on the assump-tion that the two ...
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La Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione, opera ormai classica della linguistica italiana moderna, ritorna al pubblico dopo una lunga assenza. Era stata salutata al tempo della sua prima apparizione come «una pietra miliare nella... more
La Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione, opera ormai classica della linguistica italiana moderna, ritorna al pubblico dopo una lunga assenza. Era stata salutata al tempo della sua prima apparizione come «una pietra miliare nella storia della grammatica della nostra lingua» (G. Lepschy, 1989) ed è poi servita come modello di imprese simili per altre lingue romanze.
La Grande Grammatica non è solo una sintesi dei risultati raggiunti dalla ricerca scientifica sulla grammatica italiana, ma un’opera in larga misura originale. Infatti, se in alcuni casi si poteva basare su risultati acquisiti, in molti altri ha affrontato aspetti della grammatica italiana mai trattati prima. Essa presenta quindi una quantità enorme di dati e di generalizzazioni nuove. Per questo, nonostante gli anni passati e le novità nel campo della ricerca, la Grande Grammatica continua a essere la descrizione più dettagliata delle strutture della sintassi italiana e il punto di riferimento obbligato per gli studi relativi.
Una nuova presentazione dei curatori sui principi ispiratori dell’opera e un’appendice con Aggiunte e Correzioni completano questa ristampa della Grammatica, che riproduce la seconda edizione del 2001.
La Grande Grammatica non è solo una sintesi dei risultati raggiunti dalla ricerca scientifica sulla grammatica italiana, ma un’opera in larga misura originale. Infatti, se in alcuni casi si poteva basare su risultati acquisiti, in molti altri ha affrontato aspetti della grammatica italiana mai trattati prima. Essa presenta quindi una quantità enorme di dati e di generalizzazioni nuove. Per questo, nonostante gli anni passati e le novità nel campo della ricerca, la Grande Grammatica continua a essere la descrizione più dettagliata delle strutture della sintassi italiana e il punto di riferimento obbligato per gli studi relativi.
Una nuova presentazione dei curatori sui principi ispiratori dell’opera e un’appendice con Aggiunte e Correzioni completano questa ristampa della Grammatica, che riproduce la seconda edizione del 2001.
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La Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione, opera ormai classica della linguistica italiana moderna, ritorna al pubblico dopo una lunga assenza. Era stata salutata al tempo della sua prima apparizione come «una pietra miliare nella... more
La Grande grammatica italiana di consultazione, opera ormai classica della linguistica italiana moderna, ritorna al pubblico dopo una lunga assenza. Era stata salutata al tempo della sua prima apparizione come «una pietra miliare nella storia della grammatica della nostra lingua» (G. Lepschy, 1989) ed è poi servita come modello di imprese simili per altre lingue romanze.
La Grande Grammatica non è solo una sintesi dei risultati raggiunti dalla ricerca scientifica sulla grammatica italiana, ma un’opera in larga misura originale. Infatti, se in alcuni casi si poteva basare su risultati acquisiti, in molti altri ha affrontato aspetti della grammatica italiana mai trattati prima. Essa presenta quindi una quantità enorme di dati e di generalizzazioni nuove. Per questo, nonostante gli anni passati e le novità nel campo della ricerca, la Grande Grammatica continua a essere la descrizione più dettagliata delle strutture della sintassi italiana e il punto di riferimento obbligato per gli studi relativi.
Una nuova presentazione dei curatori sui principi ispiratori dell’opera e un’appendice con Aggiunte e Correzioni completano questa ristampa della Grammatica, che riproduce la seconda edizione del 2001.
La Grande Grammatica non è solo una sintesi dei risultati raggiunti dalla ricerca scientifica sulla grammatica italiana, ma un’opera in larga misura originale. Infatti, se in alcuni casi si poteva basare su risultati acquisiti, in molti altri ha affrontato aspetti della grammatica italiana mai trattati prima. Essa presenta quindi una quantità enorme di dati e di generalizzazioni nuove. Per questo, nonostante gli anni passati e le novità nel campo della ricerca, la Grande Grammatica continua a essere la descrizione più dettagliata delle strutture della sintassi italiana e il punto di riferimento obbligato per gli studi relativi.
Una nuova presentazione dei curatori sui principi ispiratori dell’opera e un’appendice con Aggiunte e Correzioni completano questa ristampa della Grammatica, che riproduce la seconda edizione del 2001.