Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti: 223 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902725706X ISBN 13: 9789027257062

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects or comparing different modes of acquisition, as in Adriana Belletti’s work, to whom the volume is dedicated. The papers in the first part (by Chomsky, Rizzi, Bianchi & Chesi, Cinque, Costa, Calabrese) deal with theoretical issues such as labeling, the cartography of structures and the locality of derivations in a broad sense. The papers in the second part (by Haegeman & Lohndal, Delfitto & Fiorin, Cruschina, Lahousse, Di Domenico and Contemori, Dal Pozzo & Matteini) concentrate on the realization of structure relative to discourse, particularly on topic and focus positions in the vP periphery, and on referential dependencies. The third part collects papers (by Cardinaletti & Volpato, Friedmann, Yachini & Szterman, Snyder & Hyams, Hamann & Tuller, Cecchetto & Donati, Grewendorf & Poletto) that specifically target intervention effects in relative clauses as apparent in different structures, different languages, and different populations.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902725706X
• ISBN 13: 9789027257062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 447
• Editor: Di Domenico Elisa, Hamann Cornelia, Matteini Simona