Raffaella Folli
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raffaella Folli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raffaella |
| FAMILY NAME | Folli |
| SIGNATURE | FOLLI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5707-1043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Acquisition of auxiliary selection in French and Italian and the role of input
This paper focuses on child acquisition of perfective auxiliaries in French and Italian by analysing auxiliary productions in naturalistic corpora and considering the role of input. Unlike languages like English or Spanish, which use have with all verb types, French and Italian use both be and have to express the perfective. Be-selection is a general marker for unaccusative and reflexive verbs, while unergative and transitive verbs select have. P…
The impact of internal and external factors across language domains and features in sequential bilingual acquisition
Factors which impact bilingual language development can often interact with different language features. The current study teases apart the impact of internal and external factors (chronological age, length of exposure, L2 richness, L2 use at home, maternal education and maternal L2 proficiency) across linguistic domains and features (vocabulary, morphology and syntax). Participants were 40 Arabic-speaking sequential bilinguals acquiring English …
Language Proficiency Across Tasks in Sequential Bilingual and Monolingual Children
A number of different language measures are used in child language acquisition studies. This raises the issue of comparability across tasks, and whether this comparability diverges depending on the specific language domain or the language population (e.g., monolinguals versus bilinguals). The current study investigates the comparability across tasks in the domains of vocabulary, morphology, and syntax in primary-school-aged sequential bilingual c…
Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French
This paper constitutes an empirical investigation into the diachrony of clitic climbing (and consequently restructuring) in French based on data from a novel corpus of legal texts, as well as a theoretical analysis of the loss of this phenomenon from the history of French. We show that clitic climbing was obligatory until the Middle French period, until its eventual loss before the start of the 19th century. Assuming that clitics are φ-heads that…
Plurality and crosslinguistic variation: An experimental investigation of the Turkish plural
In English and many other languages, the interpretation of the plural is associated with an ‘exclusive’ reading in positive sentences and an ‘inclusive’ reading in negative ones. For example, the plural noun tulips in a sentence such as Chicken planted tulips suggests that Chicken planted more than one tulip (i.e., a reading which ‘excludes’ atomic individual tulips). At the same time, however, the corresponding negative sentence Chicken didn’t p…
A Head Movement Approach to Talmy's Typology
We propose that the well-known verb-framed/satellite-framed variation observed by Talmy ( 1975 , 1985 , 2000 ) is a true syntactic parameter of a well-understood type: a head movement parameter. We claim that it depends on an uninterpretable feature bundled with the particular v head used in change-of-state constructions that forces the head of the Res(ult)P complement of v to undergo head movement to v in Italian. The technical apparatus employe…
Topic Strategies and the Internal Structure of Nominal Arguments in Greek and Italian
In this article, we argue that a set of unexpected contrasts in the interpretation of clitic-left-dislocated indefinites in Greek and Italian derive from structural variation in the nominal syntax of the two languages. Greek resists nonreferential indefinites in clitic left-dislocation, resorting to the topicalization of an often bare noun for nonreferential topics. By contrast, clitic left-dislocation is employed in Italian for topics regardless…
The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek
Across languages, plural marking on count nouns typically gives rise to a multiplicity inference, indicating that the noun ranges over sums with a cardinality of 2 or more. Plural marking has also been observed to occur on mass nouns in Greek and a few other languages, giving rise to a parallel abundance inference, indicating that there is a lot of the relevant substance. It has been observed in the literature that both of these inferences disapp…
Clitic right dislocation in English: Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition
The syntax of argument structure: Evidence from Italian complex predicates
This paper provides an analysis of Italian complex predicates formed by combining a feminine nominalization in - ata and one of three light verbs: fare ‘make’, dare ‘give’ and prendere ‘take’. We show that the constraints governing the choice of light verb follow from a syntactic approach to argument structure, and that several interpretive differences between complex and simplex predicates formed from the same verb root can be accounted for in a…
Complex PPs in Italian
Teleology and animacy in external arguments
Introduction: The In(ter)dependence of event structure, aspect and tense
Introduction: Perfectivity, telicity and the Nordic languages
This volume contains articles by Kristín M. Jóhannsdóttir, Ingebjørg Tonne, Mai Tungseth and Anne Tamm on perfectivity and telicity in some of the Nordic languages. In this introduction, we summarise the main claims and conclusions of each paper, and briefly discuss the recurring themes and differences in the analyses proposed in the articles included in this special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure: On the Nature of Little v
As shown by Kayne (1975), Romance causatives with faire fall into two classes, faire infinitif (FI) and faire par (FP). We argue from Italian data that the properties of the two classes depend on the nature of the complement of fare:FI embeds a vP, FP a nominalized VP. The syntactic and semantic characteristics of these complements account straightforwardly for well-known differences between FI and FP, including the previously untreated "obligati…
Determinants of event type in Persian complex predicates
Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure: On the Nature of Little v
As shown by Kayne (1975), Romance causatives with faire fall into two classes, faire infinitif (FI) and faire par (FP). We argue from Italian data that the properties of the two classes depend on the nature of the complement of fare:FI embeds a vP, FP a nominalized VP. The syntactic and semantic characteristics of these complements account straightforwardly for well-known differences between FI and FP, including the previously untreated "obligati…
Determinants of event type in Persian complex predicates
Teleology and animacy in external arguments
The syntax of argument structure: Evidence from Italian complex predicates
This paper provides an analysis of Italian complex predicates formed by combining a feminine nominalization in - ata and one of three light verbs: fare ‘make’, dare ‘give’ and prendere ‘take’. We show that the constraints governing the choice of light verb follow from a syntactic approach to argument structure, and that several interpretive differences between complex and simplex predicates formed from the same verb root can be accounted for in a…
The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek
Across languages, plural marking on count nouns typically gives rise to a multiplicity inference, indicating that the noun ranges over sums with a cardinality of 2 or more. Plural marking has also been observed to occur on mass nouns in Greek and a few other languages, giving rise to a parallel abundance inference, indicating that there is a lot of the relevant substance. It has been observed in the literature that both of these inferences disapp…
Plurality and crosslinguistic variation: An experimental investigation of the Turkish plural
In English and many other languages, the interpretation of the plural is associated with an ‘exclusive’ reading in positive sentences and an ‘inclusive’ reading in negative ones. For example, the plural noun tulips in a sentence such as Chicken planted tulips suggests that Chicken planted more than one tulip (i.e., a reading which ‘excludes’ atomic individual tulips). At the same time, however, the corresponding negative sentence Chicken didn’t p…
A Head Movement Approach to Talmy's Typology
We propose that the well-known verb-framed/satellite-framed variation observed by Talmy ( 1975 , 1985 , 2000 ) is a true syntactic parameter of a well-understood type: a head movement parameter. We claim that it depends on an uninterpretable feature bundled with the particular v head used in change-of-state constructions that forces the head of the Res(ult)P complement of v to undergo head movement to v in Italian. The technical apparatus employe…
Topic Strategies and the Internal Structure of Nominal Arguments in Greek and Italian
In this article, we argue that a set of unexpected contrasts in the interpretation of clitic-left-dislocated indefinites in Greek and Italian derive from structural variation in the nominal syntax of the two languages. Greek resists nonreferential indefinites in clitic left-dislocation, resorting to the topicalization of an often bare noun for nonreferential topics. By contrast, clitic left-dislocation is employed in Italian for topics regardless…
Introduction: The In(ter)dependence of event structure, aspect and tense
Determinants of event type in Persian complex predicates
Introduction: Perfectivity, telicity and the Nordic languages
This volume contains articles by Kristín M. Jóhannsdóttir, Ingebjørg Tonne, Mai Tungseth and Anne Tamm on perfectivity and telicity in some of the Nordic languages. In this introduction, we summarise the main claims and conclusions of each paper, and briefly discuss the recurring themes and differences in the analyses proposed in the articles included in this special issue of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Causation, Obligation, and Argument Structure: On the Nature of Little v
As shown by Kayne (1975), Romance causatives with faire fall into two classes, faire infinitif (FI) and faire par (FP). We argue from Italian data that the properties of the two classes depend on the nature of the complement of fare:FI embeds a vP, FP a nominalized VP. The syntactic and semantic characteristics of these complements account straightforwardly for well-known differences between FI and FP, including the previously untreated "obligati…
Complex PPs in Italian
Teleology and animacy in external arguments
Introduction: The In(ter)dependence of event structure, aspect and tense
The syntax of argument structure: Evidence from Italian complex predicates
This paper provides an analysis of Italian complex predicates formed by combining a feminine nominalization in - ata and one of three light verbs: fare ‘make’, dare ‘give’ and prendere ‘take’. We show that the constraints governing the choice of light verb follow from a syntactic approach to argument structure, and that several interpretive differences between complex and simplex predicates formed from the same verb root can be accounted for in a…
Clitic right dislocation in English: Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition
The abundance inference of pluralised mass nouns is an implicature: Evidence from Greek
Across languages, plural marking on count nouns typically gives rise to a multiplicity inference, indicating that the noun ranges over sums with a cardinality of 2 or more. Plural marking has also been observed to occur on mass nouns in Greek and a few other languages, giving rise to a parallel abundance inference, indicating that there is a lot of the relevant substance. It has been observed in the literature that both of these inferences disapp…
Topic Strategies and the Internal Structure of Nominal Arguments in Greek and Italian
In this article, we argue that a set of unexpected contrasts in the interpretation of clitic-left-dislocated indefinites in Greek and Italian derive from structural variation in the nominal syntax of the two languages. Greek resists nonreferential indefinites in clitic left-dislocation, resorting to the topicalization of an often bare noun for nonreferential topics. By contrast, clitic left-dislocation is employed in Italian for topics regardless…
Plurality and crosslinguistic variation: An experimental investigation of the Turkish plural
In English and many other languages, the interpretation of the plural is associated with an ‘exclusive’ reading in positive sentences and an ‘inclusive’ reading in negative ones. For example, the plural noun tulips in a sentence such as Chicken planted tulips suggests that Chicken planted more than one tulip (i.e., a reading which ‘excludes’ atomic individual tulips). At the same time, however, the corresponding negative sentence Chicken didn’t p…
A Head Movement Approach to Talmy's Typology
We propose that the well-known verb-framed/satellite-framed variation observed by Talmy ( 1975 , 1985 , 2000 ) is a true syntactic parameter of a well-understood type: a head movement parameter. We claim that it depends on an uninterpretable feature bundled with the particular v head used in change-of-state constructions that forces the head of the Res(ult)P complement of v to undergo head movement to v in Italian. The technical apparatus employe…
Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French
This paper constitutes an empirical investigation into the diachrony of clitic climbing (and consequently restructuring) in French based on data from a novel corpus of legal texts, as well as a theoretical analysis of the loss of this phenomenon from the history of French. We show that clitic climbing was obligatory until the Middle French period, until its eventual loss before the start of the 19th century. Assuming that clitics are φ-heads that…
Acquisition of auxiliary selection in French and Italian and the role of input
This paper focuses on child acquisition of perfective auxiliaries in French and Italian by analysing auxiliary productions in naturalistic corpora and considering the role of input. Unlike languages like English or Spanish, which use have with all verb types, French and Italian use both be and have to express the perfective. Be-selection is a general marker for unaccusative and reflexive verbs, while unergative and transitive verbs select have. P…
The impact of internal and external factors across language domains and features in sequential bilingual acquisition
Factors which impact bilingual language development can often interact with different language features. The current study teases apart the impact of internal and external factors (chronological age, length of exposure, L2 richness, L2 use at home, maternal education and maternal L2 proficiency) across linguistic domains and features (vocabulary, morphology and syntax). Participants were 40 Arabic-speaking sequential bilinguals acquiring English …
Language Proficiency Across Tasks in Sequential Bilingual and Monolingual Children
A number of different language measures are used in child language acquisition studies. This raises the issue of comparability across tasks, and whether this comparability diverges depending on the specific language domain or the language population (e.g., monolinguals versus bilinguals). The current study investigates the comparability across tasks in the domains of vocabulary, morphology, and syntax in primary-school-aged sequential bilingual c…
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