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Teacher
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FRASCARELLI MARA
(syllabus)
This course is intended to analyse, within the Generative framework, the interplay ("interface") between syntax, prosody, semantics and discourse grammar. In particular the course will focus on three major issues for linguistic investigation and research:
(1) The interpretation of different types of Focus (informative, corrective, contrastive, exclusive and migrative Focus) and their formal realization, both from a prosodic and a syntactic viewpoint (in situ vs. fronted) in typological diverse languages.
(2) The interpretation of different types of Topics (aboutness, contrastive, familiar/given Topic), the creation of topical chains and the interpretation of null subject in consistent, partial and radical pro-drop languages.
(3) The relationship between argument structure and syntactic phenomena, with particular attention to the fronting of specific discourse categories and the arrangement of verb arguments within the so-called "VP-shell".
The course will deal with typologically different languages, based on original data and interpretive surveys and includes an applicative part, with the creation of an original experimental by the students.
(reference books)
- Puglielli, Annarita e Mara Frascarelli (2008). L’analisi Linguistica. Dai dati alla teoria. Roma/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Capitoli scelti).
- 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 & Giorgio Carella (2019). Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects: The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian. The Linguistic review, 36 (4): 637-674.
- Larson, Richard (1988). On the Double Object Construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19, 335-391.
- Arad, Maya (1998). VP-Structure and the syntax-lexicon interface. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, MIT Press.
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