Phases of Interpretation (eBook)

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Mara Frascarelli, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Phases and interpretation 11
Grafts follow from merge 27
An interpretive effect of head movement 55
When we do that and when we don’t: A contrastive analysis of VP ellipsis and VP anaphora 81
‘HAVE’ = ‘BE’ + PREP(osition): New evidence for the preposition incorporation analysis of clausal possession 117
Northern Norwegian degree questions and the syntax of measurement 143
Parallels in clausal and nominal periphery 173
The properties of anticausatives crosslinguistically 197
Number agreement and event pluralization: A case study 223
The Phase Condition and cyclic Spell-out: Evidence from VP-topicalization 247
Parallel phases: a study on the high and low left periphery of Old Italian 271
Obviation in subjunctive argument clauses and the first-personal interpretation 305
Who is lui? Reference of Italian overt and covert subject pronouns 331
Satisfying the Subject Criterion by a non subject: English Locative Inversion and Heavy NP Shift 351
Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery 373
Backmatter 397

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"Phases of interpretation raises the investigation of a wide range of important issues in syntax to a higher level, für which this valuable volume deserves praise."
Marcel den Dikken in: Linguistics 2007