Gionata Bocci
Biographic Data
| ID | 1797489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gionata Bocci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gionata |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocci |
| SIGNATURE | BOCCI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3800-8249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Focus in wh-questions: Evidence from Italian
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather mediated by a [focus] feature encoded in the syntactic representation; second, whether interrogative wh -phrases are inherently endowed with a [focus] feature. We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh -questions in Italian, showing t…
From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
Left Periphery of the Clause: Primarily Illustrated for Italian
The analysis of the left periphery was one of the first topics of the research program referred to as "the cartography of syntactic structures." This program is based on the observation that syntactic representations are complex structures consisting of sequences of hierarchically organized functional elements. Drawing detailed maps of such structures has been shown to have valuable heuristic power in the investigation of how syntactic structures…
Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures
This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic and syntactic evidence from Italian showing that this phenomenon has distinctive grammatical properties with respect to other instances of "focus fronting". We argue that the fronted constituent bears narrow focus, and that the unexpectedness import conveys that the …
Left Periphery of the Clause: Primarily Illustrated for Italian
The analysis of the left periphery was one of the first topics of the research program referred to as "the cartography of syntactic structures." This program is based on the observation that syntactic representations are complex structures consisting of sequences of hierarchically organized functional elements. Drawing detailed maps of such structures has been shown to have valuable heuristic power in the investigation of how syntactic structures…
Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures
This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic and syntactic evidence from Italian showing that this phenomenon has distinctive grammatical properties with respect to other instances of "focus fronting". We argue that the fronted constituent bears narrow focus, and that the unexpectedness import conveys that the …
Focus in wh-questions: Evidence from Italian
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather mediated by a [focus] feature encoded in the syntactic representation; second, whether interrogative wh -phrases are inherently endowed with a [focus] feature. We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh -questions in Italian, showing t…
Focus fronting, unexpectedness, and evaluative implicatures
This paper discusses the fronting of a focal constituent to a clause-initial position which, in various languages, is associated with an import of unexpectedness. We provide prosodic and syntactic evidence from Italian showing that this phenomenon has distinctive grammatical properties with respect to other instances of "focus fronting". We argue that the fronted constituent bears narrow focus, and that the unexpectedness import conveys that the …
Left Periphery of the Clause: Primarily Illustrated for Italian
The analysis of the left periphery was one of the first topics of the research program referred to as "the cartography of syntactic structures." This program is based on the observation that syntactic representations are complex structures consisting of sequences of hierarchically organized functional elements. Drawing detailed maps of such structures has been shown to have valuable heuristic power in the investigation of how syntactic structures…
From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
Focus in wh-questions: Evidence from Italian
This paper addresses two long-standing issues concerning focus: first, the question of whether the focal interpretation is directly read off the prosodic structure of a sentence, or it is rather mediated by a [focus] feature encoded in the syntactic representation; second, whether interrogative wh -phrases are inherently endowed with a [focus] feature. We provide evidence from two prosodic experiments on direct wh -questions in Italian, showing t…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Grammar, comparative and general, phonology (1 works) · Implicature (1 works) · Interrogative (1 works) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (1 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works)