306 Pages
68 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
306 Pages
68 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
306 Pages
68 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena, Italy. Over the years her main research has focused on generative comparative morphosyntax and on different modes of language acquisition and forms of language pathologies. Her previous publications include Structures and Strategies (2009).
