Author: Roberta D'Alessandro
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110189674 Pages: 243 Price: Europe EURO 78.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110189674 Pages: 243 Price: U.S. $ 105.30 Comment: for USA, Canada & Mexico
Abstract:
This book is a research monograph on impersonal 'si' constructions (ISC) in Italian within the Minimalist program framework. The book offers a new point of view on ISCs, providing a new set of crucial data that were previously unknown, and pointing out many characteristics of ISCs that were overlooked before. It results in the introduction of additional means of syntactic analysis at the edge between narrow syntax and pragmatics.
From the Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Types of si 3. Theoretical Assumptions 4. Syntactic and semantic agreement
Chapter 3: The person restriction in transitive ISCs 1. Introduction 2. The person restriction on Nominitive objects: where and when 3. Specialized v or Structural Constraint? 4. The person restriction on ISCs: a multiple-Agree analysis 5. Icelandic quirky dative constructions 6. No restriction: Italian psych and ISCs without V-O agreement 7. Conclusions
Chapter 4: The inclusive interpretation of impersonal si 1. Introduction 2. Interpretational variation for impersonal si constructions 3. Specific time reference, aspectual specification and inclusiveness 4. Aspect and boundedness 5. Generic vs. inclusive reading in ISCs 6. Conclusions
Chapter 5: Past participle agreement in impersonal si constructions 1. Past participle agreement in ISCs 2. The unaccusative-unergative puzzle 3. Other cases of agreement mismatch 4. Conclusions
Chapter 6: Conclusions 1. Summary 2. Final remarks
Of interest to:
Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Romance and Italian General Linguistics, especially Syntax and Semantics
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