Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar

Guglielmo Cinque

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511554261

Guglielmo Cinque is one of the world's leading theoretical syntacticians, and is particularly known for his application of recent theory to the analysis of Italian. This volume brings together ten of Professor Cinque's essays, some of which are published here for the first time, and some of which have not hitherto been easily available. They explore a wide range of aspects of Italian syntax, including the grammar of relative and 'pseudo-relative' clauses in the complement of perception verbs, impersonal si constructions, and the position and argument structure of adjectives in the noun phrase. The volume considers the implications of Cinque's work on Italian syntax for generative grammar more broadly, and compares Italian with the syntax of other Romance and also Germanic languages. It will be welcomed by all those working on Italian syntax, and on theoretical syntax generally.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-6

1 - On extraction from NP in Italian
pp 7-53

2 - On the theory of relative clauses and markedness
pp 54-103

3 - Bare quantifiers, quantified NPs, and the notion of operator at S-structure
pp 104-120

4 - On si constructions and the theory of arb
pp 121-192

5 - Ci si
pp 193-198

6 - On a difference between English and Italian “Complement Object Deletion” constructions
pp 199-206

7 - Ergative adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis
pp 207-243

8 - The pseudo-relative and ACC-ing constructions after verbs of perception
pp 244-275

9 - On leftward movement of tutto in Italian
pp 276-286

10 - On the evidence for partial N-movement in the Romance DP
pp 287-309

References
pp 310-327

Index
pp 328-332

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