Full Description
This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti published over the last ten years or so, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies on (modes of) language acquisition through her work.
The volume explores domains of theoretical morphosyntax in the generative tradition and theoretically guided studies on language acquisition. An introduction specific to this volume contextualizes these contributions within ongoing developments in the field. Part I presents studies inspired by the illuminating interchange between linguistic theory and experimentation in the domain of language acquisition, leading to the formulation of explicit research questions tested experimentally and guiding in the proper interpretation of the results. Part II offers refined, detailed theoretical analyses of domains in which peripheral positions in the clause structures are crucially involved to express discourse contents, in sometimes not standard ways during development.
Demonstrating how refined linguistic analyses play a crucial role in interpreting the peculiar shape of developmental data, this book will be of interest to scholars in syntax, language acquisition, and theoretical linguistics.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Relatives and passive object relatives in Italian-speaking children and adults: Intervention in production and comprehension
On the acquisition of complex derivations with related considerations on poverty of the stimulus and frequency
Topics and passives in Italian-speaking children and adults
Internal grammar and children's grammatical creativity against poor inputs
Contributing to linguistic theory, language description, and the characterization of language development through experimental studies
Revisiting the cartography of (Italian) postverbal subjects from different angles with reference to canonicality
Labeling (Romance) causatives
(Reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian
On Fin: Italian che, Japanese no, and the selective properties of the copula in clefts
The focus map of clefts: Extraposition and predication
Revisiting the CP of clefts
On a-marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery
Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-topics
Index
