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20710724 GENERAL LINGUISTICS D LM (THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE) in Modern languages for International Communication LM-38 FRASCARELLI MARA
(syllabus)
This course is intended to analyse, within the Minimalist Framework of Generative Grammar, 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 split-DP and the categories realised within the functional are dominating the noun phrase.
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 and Mara Frascarelli (2008). Linguistic analysis. From data to theory. Rome/Cesena: Caissa Editore (Selected chapters).
- 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 (2010). Narrow Focus, Clefting and Predicate Inversion. Lingua, 120, 9: 2121-2147.
Additional material will be defined during the course. Any additions will be reported on the Moodle platform.
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