Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. PART I. The Architecture of the Computational Component
7. Problems of projection 3
8. Notes on labeling and subject positions 17
9. On a PP/DP asymmetry in extraction 47
10. Augmentative, pejorative, diminutive and endearing heads in the extended nominal projection 67
11. A note on parallels between agreement and intervention 83
12. Locality effects in Italian verbal morphology 97
13. PART II. The Realization of Structure Relative to Discourse and Referential Dependencies: Focus, the vP periphery, and pronominal reference
14. Be careful how you use the left periphery 135
15. Exhaustivity operators and fronted focus in Italian 163
16. Some notes on clefting and fronting 181
17. A case of focal adverb preposing in French 209
18. Transferring strategies and the nature of transfer 237
19. Resolving pronominal anaphora in real-time 257
20. PART III. Complex clauses in linguistic theory and acquisition: The role of intervention
21. On the comprehension and production of passive sentences and relative clauses by Italian university students with dyslexia 279
22. Relatively easy relatives 303
23. Intervention effects in the spontaneous production of relative clauses in (a)typical language development of French children and adolescents 321
24. Minimality effects in children’s passives 343
25. Subject intervention in free relatives 369
26. Relative clauses in Cimbrian 393
27. Index 417