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Subject(s)

• Grammar, Comparative and general—Morphosyntax [Browse]
• Generative grammar [Browse]
• Contrastive linguistics [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general—Morphology [Browse]

Honoree

• Manzini, Maria Rita [Browse]

Editor

• Franco, Ludovico [Browse]
• Lorusso, Paolo [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Festschriften [Browse]
• Essays [Browse]

Series

• Studies in generative grammar ; 132. [More in this series]
• Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; volume 132 [More in this series]

Summary note

"In this volume scholar honor M. Rita Manzini for her contributions to the field of Generative Morphosyntax. the essays in this book celebrate her career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics and by pursuing a broad comparative approach, investigating and comparing different languages and dialects." -- Back cover

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Contents

• Introduction / Leonardo M. Savoia
• A labelling solution to a curious EPP effect / David Adger
• The question of overgeneration in Element Theory / Laura Bafile
• Linguistic and pragmatic procedures in the political discourse / Benedetta Baldi
• Why doubling discourse particles? / Josef Bayer
• (reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian / Adriana Belletti
• Irregular verbal morphology and locality: the irregular Latin perfect forms, their Proto-Indo-European ancestors and their Romance outcomes / Andrea Calabrese
• Multiple agreement in Southern Italian dialects / Anna Cardinaletti and Giuliana Giusti
• Relabeling participial constructions / Carlo Cecchetto and Caterina Donati
• Puzzles about phases / Noam Chomsky
• On the double-headed analysis of "Headless" relative clauses / Guglielmo Cinque
• Bantu class prefixes: towards a cross-categorical account / Gloria Cocchi
• Differential object marking and the structure of transitive clauses / Marcel den Dikken
• Countability and the /s/ morpheme in English / Elisa Di Domenico
• (Im)proper prepositions in (Old and Modern) Italian / Ludovico Franco
• Not even a crumb of negotiation: on mica in Old Italian / Jacopo Garzonio
• From brain noise to syntactic structures: a formal proposal within the oscillatory rhythms perspective / Mirko Grimaldi
• When seem wants control / Kleanthes K. Grohmann
• Some thoughts on one and two and other numerals / Richard S. Kayne
• Stress shift under cliticization in the Sardinian transitional area / Roseangela Lai
• The causative construction in the dialects of southern Italy and the phonology-syntax interface / Adam Ledgeway
• Lexical parametrization and early subjects in L1 Italian / Paolo Lorusso
• Inflected infinitives in Portugese / Ana Madeira and Alexandra Fiéis
• Some notes on the Sardinian complementizer systems / Guido Mensching
• Structural source of person split / Léa Nash
• The non-existence of sub-lexical scope / Ad Neeleman and Hans van de Koot
• An emergentist view on functional classes / Diego Pescarini
• The (information) structure of existentials / Francesca Ramaglia and Mara Frascarelli
• Che and weak islands / Luigi Rizzi
• Complement clauses: case and argumenthood / Anna Roussou
• The internal structure of Nguni nominal class prefixes / Tarald Taraldsen
• Expletives, locatives, and subject doubling / Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
• Arbitrary control instead of obligatory control in temporal adjuncts in Child Grammar: an ATTRACT analysis / Kenneth Wexler.

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ISBN

• 9781501514340 ((hardbound))
• 1501514342

LCCN

2019940604

OCLC

1132879787

International Article Number

• 9781501514340

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