TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samek-Lodovici, Vieri
AB  - This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression is systematically affected by the syntactic expression of discourse-givenness. The proposed analysis disentangles the properties genuinely associated with contrastive focalization from those determined by the most productive operations affecting discourse given phrases at the right periphery, namely right dislocation and marginalization. On this basis, it shows that in the default case contrastive focalization occurs in situ and that instances of left-peripheral focalization only arise when focus obligatorily evacuates a larger right-dislocating phrase, giving rise to a distribution of leftward-moved foci that generalizes well beyond the cases examined in Rizzi (1997) and most literature since. In its final chapter, the book examines the syntax–prosody interface, showing how focalization in situ and other key properties follow from the prosodic constraints governing stress placement, thus reinterpreting and extending Zubizarreta’s (1998) analysis of p-movement and the role of prosody in shaping syntax. Overall, this book offers an evidence-backed radical departure from current views of focalization based on a 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.
DO  - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198737926.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 606622
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 931531565
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32740
KW  - prosody
KW  - givenness
KW  - syntax
KW  - focus evacuation
KW  - prosody interface
KW  - contrastive focus
KW  - marginalization
KW  - right dislocation
KW  - left periphery
KW  - italian
KW  - p-movement
KW  - Adverb
KW  - Clitic
KW  - Clitic doubling
KW  - Creative Commons license
KW  - Italy
KW  - Object (grammar)
KW  - Social exclusion
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32740/1/606622.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31683
PB  - Oxford University Press
PB  - University College London
PP  - Oxford, UK
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9780198737926
TI  - The Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody: A Study of Italian Clause Structurenull
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