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20710499 GENERAL LINGUISTICS LM (module D) in Modern languages for International Communication LM-38 FRASCARELLI MARA
(syllabus)
This course is intended to analyse, within the Generative framework, the interplay ("interface") between syntax, prosody and discourse grammar,
in relation to a hierarchy of functional projections in the left periphery of the sentence, dedicated to the encoding of information-structural features and determining the interpretation of (different types of) Topic and Focus. In particular the course will focus on three major issues:
(1) the interpretation of different types of focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, mirative) and its formal realization, both from a prosodic and a syntactic viewpoint (in situ vs. fronted, in matrix vs. embedded clauses) in typological diverse languages. (2) The creation of topical chains and the interpretation of null subject comparing consistent, partial and radical pro-drop languages.
(3) The acquisition of the competences connected to the issues dealt within (1) and (2) in L2 learning people.
The course will deal with typologically different languages, based on original data and interpretive surveys and includes an applicative part, aimed at the acquisition of skills to use computer programs for intonational analysis (Praat).
(reference books)
• Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli 6-7).
• Bianchi, V. (2013). On Focus movement in Italian. In Victoria Camacho-Taboada et al (eds.), Information Structure and Agreement, 194-215. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.
• Frascarelli, Mara (2007) Subjects, Topics and the Interpretation of Referential pro. An interface approach to the linking of (null) pronouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25, 4: 691-734
• Frascarelli, Mara (2018) The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial NS languages: A comparative interface analysis. in Federica Cognola & Jan Casalicchio (eds.), Null-Subjects in Generative Grammar. A synchronic and diachronic perspective, Part IIB, Ch. 9. OUP, Oxford/New York.
• Frascarelli, Mara e Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic review.
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