Chapters in this book

  • Rizzi, Luigi; Petrosino, Roberto; Cerrone, Pietro; van der Hulst, Harry (2018)
    In this paper I would like to address the classical issue of the similarities and differences between subject and topic positions. In doing so, I will build on seminal work by Andrea Calabrese, particularly Calabrese (1986) ...
  • Bocci, Giuliano; Cruschina, Silvio; Petrosino, Roberto; Cerrone, Pietro; van der Hulst, Harry (2018)
    The structure of this chapter is as follows. We first illustrate the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian wh-questions (§ 2). In Section 3, we present the results of a syntactic experiment on the distribution of ...
  • Belletti, Adriana; Petrosino, Roberto; Cerrone, Pietro; van der Hulst, Harry (2018)
    Standard Italian is known not to mark lexical direct objects through use of a prep-osition.1 This is in contrast with southern varieties, in which lexical direct objects are typically introduced by preposition a, as an ...