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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 The cartographic approach and the left periphery of the clause in Italian |
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1.1 The cartographic approach |
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6 | (2) |
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1.2 Background: The fine structure of the left periphery in Italian |
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8 | (14) |
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1.2.1 Some properties opposing topic and focus in the left periphery in Italian |
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15 | (7) |
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22 | (5) |
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Chapter 2 The right periphery of the clause |
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27 | (26) |
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29 | (3) |
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2.2 (Clitic) Right Dislocation |
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32 | (21) |
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2.2.1 (Clitic) Right Dislocation is not a device to assign focus |
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34 | (5) |
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2.2.2 Right-Dislocated Topics are clause-internal topics |
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39 | (14) |
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Chapter 3 Crosslinguistic variation: Uniqueness versus multiplicity of focus |
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53 | (22) |
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3.1 Alternative semantics and focus in Italian |
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54 | (9) |
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3.1.1 Alternative semantics for focus |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (7) |
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3.2 Issues on uniqueness of focus |
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63 | (12) |
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3.2.1 Focus-sensitive operators and uniqueness of focus |
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63 | (5) |
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3.2.2 Focus uniqueness, focus coordination |
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68 | (4) |
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3.2.3 Some speculations on uniqueness of focus and crosslinguistic variation |
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72 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Focus on subjects in preverbal position |
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75 | (16) |
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75 | (3) |
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4.2 Contrastive focalization in Rural Florentine |
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78 | (2) |
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4.3 Ne-cliticization test |
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80 | (2) |
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4.4 Focused preverbal subjects and Weak Crossover |
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82 | (4) |
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4.5 Focused subjects, Principle C, and reconstruction |
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86 | (3) |
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4.6 Discussion and conclusion |
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89 | (2) |
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Chapter 5 Focus on Topics: The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics |
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5.1 The strange case of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocated Topics |
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91 | (1) |
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5.2 Contexts for Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation |
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92 | (2) |
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5.3 Contrastive Focus Left Dislocation is not contrastive topicalization |
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94 | (3) |
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5.4 Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation as Clitic Left Dislocated Topics prosodically focused in situ? |
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97 | (3) |
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5.5 Focus, Topic, and Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation in reduced left peripheries |
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100 | (3) |
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5.6 Analysis of Contrastively Focused Left Dislocation: Head movement from Top° to Foc° |
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103 | (3) |
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5.7 Postfocal Clitic Left Dislocated Topics, definiteness, and CFLD |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 From syntax to prosody |
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6.1 Introduction to prosody |
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111 | (2) |
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113 | (7) |
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114 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Default mapping rules |
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115 | (2) |
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6.2.3 Feature-sensitive mapping rules |
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117 | (2) |
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6.2.4 A note on the notion of nuclear pitch accent |
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119 | (1) |
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6.3 Experimental procedures and corpora |
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120 | (6) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (5) |
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6.4 Pitch accents and types of focus |
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126 | (15) |
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6.4.1 L+H* on Contrastive Focus |
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129 | (3) |
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6.4.2 H+L* on broad and narrow informational focus |
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132 | (5) |
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6.4.3 Theoretical implications |
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137 | (1) |
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6.4.4 The last pitch accent of the focus constituent and the projection of focus |
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138 | (3) |
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6.5 The Focus Defining Rule and the role of L* in Tuscan Italian |
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141 | (15) |
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6.5.1 The pitch contour on postfocal material |
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141 | (7) |
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6.5.2 L*-association is ruled by the linear position of focus |
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148 | (8) |
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156 | (6) |
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6.7 Focus, main prominence, and main wh-questions in Italian |
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162 | (10) |
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6.8 On the phonetic reality of postfocal phrasal heads |
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172 | (12) |
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6.9 On the (non-)isomorphism between the prosodic representation and the syntactic and information structure |
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184 | (5) |
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189 | (4) |
| References |
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193 | (16) |
| Index |
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