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Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2001
... Page 5. 93 Nicola Munaro tell-me that-that eats Mary 'tell me what Mary eats' Basin... more ... Page 5. 93 Nicola Munaro tell-me that-that eats Mary 'tell me what Mary eats' Basing on the fact that sen is reported in the AIS as demonstrative, the form sen-che is straightforwardly analyzable as deriving from an agglutination of the demonstrative to the complementizer.4 2.2. ...
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 2010
Mapping the Left Periphery, 2011
4 NICOLA MUNARO Toward a Hierarchy of Clause Types 1. Introduction As is well known, a considerab... more 4 NICOLA MUNARO Toward a Hierarchy of Clause Types 1. Introduction As is well known, a considerable number of Northeastern Italian dialects display the morphosyntactic ... I wish I had run], I would not have missed the train on that occasion,[I wish I had run]!' (23) a Foss-jo làt ...
This article develops an analysis of verbless exclamative clauses in Romance; in this type of red... more This article develops an analysis of verbless exclamative clauses in Romance; in this type of reduced clause the predicative complement precedes the subject and is separated from it by an intonational break, while the missing verb is interpreted as a copula. After the discussion of some peculiar properties of evaluative predicates, the crosslinguistic interpretive hallmarks of verbless exclamatives are described on the basis of data from Italian, Spanish and French. It will be argued that the absence of a wh-modifier in this structure corresponds to the speaker's intention to establish a relation between the subject and an evaluative predicate. The fact that the property expressed by the predicate must belong to the individual-level category follows from its being presented as an intrinsic feature of the subject. Moreover, the fact that comparatives and relative superlatives are generally excluded from verbless exclamatives witnesses that no comparison with other entities is al...
Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy, 2014
Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2001
Abstract: This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellune... more Abstract: This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellunese, a Northern Italian dialect spoken in the town of Belluno. A striking difference between the two languages, otherwise very closely related, lies in the fact that bare wh-...
The presence of these particles induces interesting interpretive effects; more generally, an inve... more The presence of these particles induces interesting interpretive effects; more generally, an investigation of their properties is relevant for the analysis of the left periphery of the clause; in addition, a detailed study of these particles turns out to have theoretical relevance for a crosslinguistic theory of clausal typing on the one hand and for a deeper understanding of the syntax-semantics interface on the other. The distribution of SPs also involves a number of interpretive and pragmatic distinctions that contribute to highlight the way sentence type is encoded in the syntactic structure and to provide some insights into more fine-grained distinctions internal to each sentence type.
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 7, 2012
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2001
... Page 5. 93 Nicola Munaro tell-me that-that eats Mary 'tell me what Mary eats' Basin... more ... Page 5. 93 Nicola Munaro tell-me that-that eats Mary 'tell me what Mary eats' Basing on the fact that sen is reported in the AIS as demonstrative, the form sen-che is straightforwardly analyzable as deriving from an agglutination of the demonstrative to the complementizer.4 2.2. ...
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 2010
Mapping the Left Periphery, 2011
4 NICOLA MUNARO Toward a Hierarchy of Clause Types 1. Introduction As is well known, a considerab... more 4 NICOLA MUNARO Toward a Hierarchy of Clause Types 1. Introduction As is well known, a considerable number of Northeastern Italian dialects display the morphosyntactic ... I wish I had run], I would not have missed the train on that occasion,[I wish I had run]!' (23) a Foss-jo làt ...
This article develops an analysis of verbless exclamative clauses in Romance; in this type of red... more This article develops an analysis of verbless exclamative clauses in Romance; in this type of reduced clause the predicative complement precedes the subject and is separated from it by an intonational break, while the missing verb is interpreted as a copula. After the discussion of some peculiar properties of evaluative predicates, the crosslinguistic interpretive hallmarks of verbless exclamatives are described on the basis of data from Italian, Spanish and French. It will be argued that the absence of a wh-modifier in this structure corresponds to the speaker's intention to establish a relation between the subject and an evaluative predicate. The fact that the property expressed by the predicate must belong to the individual-level category follows from its being presented as an intrinsic feature of the subject. Moreover, the fact that comparatives and relative superlatives are generally excluded from verbless exclamatives witnesses that no comparison with other entities is al...
Grammatical Change in the Dialects of Italy, 2014
Linguistic Variation Yearbook, 2001
Abstract: This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellune... more Abstract: This article offers a comparative syntax approach to wh-questions in French and Bellunese, a Northern Italian dialect spoken in the town of Belluno. A striking difference between the two languages, otherwise very closely related, lies in the fact that bare wh-...
The presence of these particles induces interesting interpretive effects; more generally, an inve... more The presence of these particles induces interesting interpretive effects; more generally, an investigation of their properties is relevant for the analysis of the left periphery of the clause; in addition, a detailed study of these particles turns out to have theoretical relevance for a crosslinguistic theory of clausal typing on the one hand and for a deeper understanding of the syntax-semantics interface on the other. The distribution of SPs also involves a number of interpretive and pragmatic distinctions that contribute to highlight the way sentence type is encoded in the syntactic structure and to provide some insights into more fine-grained distinctions internal to each sentence type.
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 7, 2012