Informational focus in Sicilian and the left
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Cruschina, Silvio; Frascarelli, Mara

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“…Note now that there is a ban against overt non-pronominal subjects in SpecTP that characterizes various constructions in Italian, viz. wh-movement/focus movement, see (82) and resumptive preposing of aboutness topics (Cardinaletti 2002;Cinque 1990), or left peripheral focus in Sicilian (Cruschina 2006 There are of course further facts to be accounted for, see Horvath (2007) among others. For example, the subject must be moved to preverbal position in wide focus contexts when it is neither pronominal nor a topic, as pointed out by I.…”

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Left peripheral focus: mismatches between syntax and information structure

Fanselow

Lenertová

2010

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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In Czech, German, and many other languages, part of the semantic focus of the utterance can be moved to the left periphery of the clause. The main generalization is that only the leftmost accented part of the semantic focus can be moved. We propose that movement to the left periphery is generally triggered by an unspecific edge feature of C (Chomsky 2008) and its restrictions can be attributed to requirements of cyclic linearization, modifying the theory of cyclic linearization developed by Fox and Pesetsky (2005). The crucial assumption is that structural accent is a direct consequence of being linearized at merge, thus it is indirectly relevant for (locality restrictions on) movement. The absence of structural accent correlates with givenness. Given elements may later receive (topic or contrastive) accents, which accounts for fronting in multiple focus/contrastive topic constructions. Without any additional assumptions, the model can account for movement of pragmatically unmarked elements to the left periphery ('formal fronting', Frey 2005). Crucially, the analysis makes no reference at all to concepts of information structure in the syntax, in line with the claim of Chomsky (2008) that UG specifies no direct link between syntax and information structure.

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Left peripheral focus: mismatches between syntax and information structure

Fanselow

Lenertová

2010

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…9, 10), even with direct objects, as in (10) (cf. Benincà, 1988;Cinque, 1990): 7 Interestingly, CR of arguments is always obligatory in other Romance varieties with a rich clitic system (at least as rich as Italian), such as Sicilian (Cruschina, 2006) and Catalan (Villalba, 2000), independently of the distinction between DP and PP arguments. The following sentences show that in Catalan a resumptive clitic is obligatory with all dislocated arguments:…”

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Syntactic Extraposition and clitic resumption in Italian

Cruschina

2010

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“…Cf. the following example where the first conjunct of the focal object is fronted while the remaining conjuncts occur postverbally: (i) Nam ipse uicus ecclesiam habet et martyria et monasteria plurima for this.nom village.nom church.aCC has and martyrs.aCC and cells.aCC many.aCC sanctorum monachorum (7.7) holy.gen.Pl monks.gen 'This village has a church, as well as martyr-memorials, and many cells of holy monks' 29. Notable exceptions are Sicilian (Cruschina 2006(Cruschina , 2012Bentley 2007), Sardinian (Jones 1993;Mensching & Remberger 2010) and Romanian (Zafiu 2013); cf. also Cruschina (2016: 606f.).…”

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Late Latin Verb Second: The Sentential Word Order of the “Itinerarium Egeriae”

Ledgeway

2017

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In this article we undertake a systematic study of the Itinerarium Egeriae, one of the best known late Latin texts, to determine the proper characterization of the word order of the text and to consider in particular whether the Itinerarium Egeriae can legitimately be considered to present a verb-second (V2) grammar on the par with the well-studied grammars of medieval Romance. The results, based on detailed quantitative and qualitative analyses of the text and, where relevant, appropriate comparisons with medieval Romance, confirm the innovative nature of the syntax of the Itinerarium Egeriae whose word order patterns are shown to follow an asymmetric V2 constraint. The article therefore offers valuable original evidence for the often claimed, but hitherto unproven, hypothesis that the V2 syntax of medieval Romance represents the continuation of a parametric setting already well established in the grammar of late Latin. En aquest article duem a terme un estudi sistemàtic de l'Itinerarium Egeriae, un dels textos del llatí tardà més ben coneguts, per tal de determinar la caracterització adequada de l'ordre de mots del text i veure, en particular, si l'Itinerarium Egeriae es pot considerar legítimament que presenta una gramàtica de verb segon (V2) de manera semblant a les gramàtiques ben estudiades del romànic medieval. Els resultats, basats en detallades anàlisis quantitatives i qualitatives del text i, on és pertinent, en comparacions adequades amb el romànic medieval, confirmen la naturalesa innovadora de la sintaxi de l'Itinerarium Egeriae, els patrons d'ordre de mots de la qual es demostra que segueixen una restricció asimètrica de V2. L'article, per tant, ofereix evidència original i valuosa a favor de la hipòtesi sovint proposada però fins ara no demostrada que la sintaxi V2 del romànic medieval representa la continuació d'una fixació paramètrica ja ben establerta en la gramàtica del llatí tardà.Paraules clau: Verb segon (V2); llatí tardà; ordre de paraules; perifèria esquerra; romànic medieval; Tobler-Mussafia * I thank two anonymous reviewers and Jim Adams, Paola Benincà, Theresa Biberauer, Federica Cognola and Nigel Vincent for their valuable comments and observations on a previous version of this article.

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Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery

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Left peripheral focus: mismatches between syntax and information structure

Left peripheral focus: mismatches between syntax and information structure

Syntactic Extraposition and clitic resumption in Italian

Late Latin Verb Second: The Sentential Word Order of the “Itinerarium Egeriae”

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