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mods: Word order in Old Italian Poletto, Cecilia 1962- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2014 monographic eng remote 1 online resource This volume offers an integrated description of all aspects of word order in Old Italian, looking at the left periphery not only of the sentence, but also of the verbal phrase and determiner phrase. It makes important contributions to the study of medieval Italian, Romance historical linguistics, and diachronic syntactic change more generally. Cover; Word Order in Old Italian; Copyright; To my family; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Source abbreviations; 1: The Old Italian left periphery; 1.1 V2 as V to Focus; 1.2 The analysis of V2: Benincà (2006) and the V2 correlates; 1.2.1 Subject inversion; 1.2.2 Constituents in first position; 1.2.3 Pro-drop; 1.2.4 Verb-third sequences; 1.2.5 Verb-first; 1.3 Topic and Operator particles; 1.3.1 Null shift topics; 1.3.2 e as a Topic marker; 1.3.3 The particle sì; 1.4 Concluding remarks; 2: Scrambling in vP; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 OI is a VO language; 2.3 Scrambling in OI 2.3.1. The elements that can be scrambled2.3.2 Multiple scrambling; 2.4 Optionality of scrambling; 2.5 What is scrambling?; 2.6 Past participle agreement; 2.7 Parallel phases; 2.8 Phase edges; 3: Scrambling in the DP phase; 3.1 Setting out the problem; 3.2 The structure of the DP phase; 3.3 Movement to the edge; 3.3.1 PP scrambling as movement to the edge of the DP; 3.3.2 Scrambling to the edge of the PP; 3.3.3 Scrambling of prenominal adjectives modified by molto; 3.4 The structural Genitive position; 3.5 Prenominal restrictive adjectives; 3.6 The loss of scrambling; 3.7 Concluding remarks 4: The vP left periphery in different sentence types4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Infinitival constructions; 4.3 Infinitival forms selected by modal and aspectual verbs; 4.3.1 Scrambling with modal verbs; 4.3.2 Scrambling with aspectual and perception verbs; 4.3.3 Causative constructions; 4.4 Scrambling and V2 in embedded cl…