Interaction of Focus, Givenness, and Prosody
Autor
Vieri Samek-Lodovici (Reader In Linguistics, Reader In Linguistics, University College London)
This book provides an in-depth investigation of contrastive focalization in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases. It also provides the most comprehensive study of Italian marginalization and right dislocation available to date.