The syntax-prosody interface

The syntax-prosody interface: a cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian

by Bocci, Giuliano

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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 an…

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  • Full title :The syntax-prosody interface : a cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian / Giuliano Bocci, University of Geneva.

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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 th.

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  • Publication Date:2013.

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:9789027272294, 9027272298
  • oclc:ocn855524690
  • LC Classification:PC1746
  • Dewey Decimal:455

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