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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: interaction of focus, givenness, and prosody
    sub title: a study of Italian clause structure
  name:
    name part: Samek-Lodovici, Vieri
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 electronic resource (xv, 332 pages ).
  abstract: This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases. Vieri Samek-Lodovici disentangles the properties genuinely associated with contrastive focalization from those determined by highly productive operations affecting discourse given phrases in Italian, namely right dislocation and marginalization. Based on a vast aggregate of evidence, he shows that in the default case contrastive focalization occurs in situ and that left-peripheral focalization patterns arise from the interaction with right dislocation and generalize well beyond the familiar cases examined in Rizzi (1997) and most literature since. In the final chapter, the author examines how the key properties unveiled in the previous sections, such as focalization in situ, follow from the prosodic constraints governing stress placement, thus reinterpreting and extending Zubizarreta's (1998) insight about the role of prosody in shaping syntax. Overall, the book offers an evidence-backed radical departure from current views of focalization proposing a high, fixed, focus projection at the left periphery of the clause. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Marginalization -- 3. Contrastive focus and marginalization -- 4. Right dislocation -- 5. Contrastive focus and right dislocation -- 6. The role of prosody -- Appendix A: Distribution and licensing of Italian N-words -- Appendix B: Evidence for leftward right dislocation -- Appendix C: Irrelevance of pp phrasing for the analysis of marginalization and left-shift.
  note: Vieri Samek-Lodovici.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-326) and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Italian language
    topic: Clauses
  subject:
    topic: Italian language
    topic: Versification
  subject:
    topic: Perspective (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Italien (Langue)
    topic: Propositions
  subject:
    topic: Italien (Langue)
    topic: Versification
  subject:
    topic: Focus (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: Grammar, syntax and morphology Mod Grammar, syntax and morphology
  subject:
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Semantics and pragmatics New
  subject:
    topic: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc. Mod Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
  subject:
    topic: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
    topic: Italian
  subject:
    topic: Italian language
    topic: Clauses
  subject:
    topic: Italian language
    topic: Versification
  subject:
    topic: Perspective (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Contrastive focus
  subject:
    topic: Focus evacuation
  subject:
    topic: Givenness
  subject:
    topic: Italian, p-movement
  subject:
    topic: Left periphery
  subject:
    topic: Marginalization
  subject:
    topic: Prosody
  subject:
    topic: Right dislocation
  subject:
    topic: Syntax-prosody interface
  classification: PC1390
  classification: 410
  classification: 875
  related item:
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
    identifier: (DLC) 2014957589
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141120
    record change date: 20260318163922.3
    record identifier: in00005696653
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng