The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structure
Author:   Vieri Samek-Lodovici (Reader in Linguistics, Reader in Linguistics, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   57
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9780198737926


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Vieri Samek-Lodovici (Reader in Linguistics, Reader in Linguistics, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   57
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780198737926


ISBN 10:   0198737920
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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Vieri Samek-Lodovici is a Reader in theoretical linguistics at University College London. He has published several articles on the syntax of focalization and its interaction with prosody and discourse givenness. He has also worked on a wide range of other topics, including argument structure, agreement, optimality theory, and the relation between optimality theory and minimalism. At the beginning of his career, he worked for several years as a computational linguist.

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