Current Studies in Italian Syntax: Essays offered to Lorenzo Renzi
Table of contents
Preface
Syntactic intervention effects on Italian polarity items, P. Acquaviva
Speculations on the possible source of expletive negation in Italian comparative clauses, A. Belletti
The position of topic and focus on the left periphery, P. Beninca
Aspect prefixes in verbal periphrases in Italian and other Romance languages, F. Benucci
"Propulsive" tenses in modern Italian fictional prose, P.M. Bertinetto
A second thought on emarginazione: destressing vs. "right dislocation", A. Cardinaletti
"Restructuring" and the order of aspectual and root modal heads, G. Cinque
The birth of a functional category: from Latin ILLE to the Romance article and personal pronoun, G. Giusti
Romance causatives and dynamic antisymmetry, M.T. Guasti, A. Moro
A note on clitic doubling in French, R.S. Kayne
Either "subject oriented" or merely sentential, L. Lonzi
The syntax of object clitics: si in Italian dialects, M.R. Manzini, L.M. Savoia
Complementizer deletion and verb movement in standard Italian, C. Poletto
On the position "int(errogative)" in the left periphery of the clause, L. Rizzi
The two sentence structures of Early Romance, G. Salvi
Evidence for a null locative in Italian, C.M. Tortora
Syntactic intervention effects on Italian polarity items, P. Acquaviva
Speculations on the possible source of expletive negation in Italian comparative clauses, A. Belletti
The position of topic and focus on the left periphery, P. Beninca
Aspect prefixes in verbal periphrases in Italian and other Romance languages, F. Benucci
"Propulsive" tenses in modern Italian fictional prose, P.M. Bertinetto
A second thought on emarginazione: destressing vs. "right dislocation", A. Cardinaletti
"Restructuring" and the order of aspectual and root modal heads, G. Cinque
The birth of a functional category: from Latin ILLE to the Romance article and personal pronoun, G. Giusti
Romance causatives and dynamic antisymmetry, M.T. Guasti, A. Moro
A note on clitic doubling in French, R.S. Kayne
Either "subject oriented" or merely sentential, L. Lonzi
The syntax of object clitics: si in Italian dialects, M.R. Manzini, L.M. Savoia
Complementizer deletion and verb movement in standard Italian, C. Poletto
On the position "int(errogative)" in the left periphery of the clause, L. Rizzi
The two sentence structures of Early Romance, G. Salvi
Evidence for a null locative in Italian, C.M. Tortora
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