Guglielmo Cinque
Biographic Data
| ID | 737204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guglielmo Cinque |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guglielmo |
| FAMILY NAME | Cinque |
| SIGNATURE | CINQUE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0640-2222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 179 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On the status of functional categories (heads and phrases)
In this article I would like to revisit one aspect of the structure of the functional sequence of the clause in light of certain recent developments, in particular Kayne’s (2016) proposal that all heads are necessarily silent. I will also discuss the possibility that (certain) silent heads may be endowed with single features that denote complex notions taking progressive aspect as a case in point
On Two Sub-projections of the Nominal Extended Projection: Some Romance Evidence
If cross-linguistic word order variation is a function of the movement of the head of each (sub)projection of an extended projection (in one of the possible ways movement can take place: with or without pied piping) there will be novel evidence for the correct constituencies of the clause and its major phrases. Here I will try to illustrate this by looking at two specific sub-projections of the nominal extended projection in a number of Romance l…
Notes on the multiple ambiguity of Bulgarian mnogo
This paper discusses the ambiguity of the Bulgarian quantity word mnogo and argues that it is not an intensifier stricto sensu, although it can also have such a usage. Comparing mnogo with its Italian counterparts troppo, tanto, and molto, we show that it corresponds more precisely to Italian tanto (English much), which can be modified by overt intensifiers like così (così tanto) or silent ones like molto/troppo (tanto), etc. (cf. English so/very…
A source of parametric variation in the lexicon
An influential conjecture concerning parameters is that they can possibly be “restricted to formal features of functional categories” (Chomsky 1995: 6). In Rizzi (2009, 2011) such features are understood as instructions triggering one of the following syntactic actions: (1) External Merge; (2) Internal Merge (Move); (3) Pronunciation/Non pronunciation (the latter arguably dependent on Internal Merge – Kayne 2005a, b). In this article I consider a…
Functional Categories and Syntactic Theory
The distinction between lexical and functional elements plays a major role in current research in syntax and neighboring aspects of the study of language. In this article, we review the motivations of a progressive shift of emphasis from lexical to functional elements in syntactic research: the identification of the functional lexicon as the locus of the triggering of syntactic actions and of syntactic variation, and the description and analysis …
The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond
The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.
Cognition, universal grammar, and typological generalizations
The Syntax of Adjectives: A Comparative Study
A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence. In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses. Some of his evidence comes from a systematic co…
Mapping Spatial PPs
Cinque, Guglielmo Mapping PPs: an introduction Koopman, Hilda Prepositions, Postpositions, Circumpositions, and Particles den Dikken, Marcel On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs Svenonius, Peter Spatial P in English Noonan, Maire A to zu Terzi, Arhonto Locative Prepositions and Place Aboh, Enoch The P Route Abraham, Werner P-Case government, misleading homonymies, and economical PPs Indices
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages
The Scandinavian Languages
Restructuring and Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 4
This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other language groups as well. The second part focuses on the consequences of treating clausal functional heads as members of a universal hierarchy in the domain of morphpsyntax, offering a n…
Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions
Of the 24 mathematically possible orders of the four elements demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, only 14 appear to be attested in the languages of the world. Some of these are unexpected under Greenberg's Universal 20. Here it is proposed that the actually attested orders, and none of the unattested ones, are derivable from a single, universal, order of Merge (Dem > Num > Adj > N) and from independent conditions on phrasal movement
Issues in adverbial syntax
Functional Structure in DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 1
This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. Structural representations are seen to arise from the combinations of two kinds syntactic atoms: lexical elements (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) and functional elements (determiners, complementizers and va…
Functional structure in DP and IP
A Note on “Restructuring” and Quantifier Climbing in French
Although Modern French was originally taken to lack the “restructuring” phenomenon altogether, four different “restructuring” effects have more recently been claimed to exist in the language:en andy climbing, quantifier climbing, adverb climbing, and long movement in ‘easy-to-please’ constructions. Evidence discussed in this article shows that only en andy climbing and long movement in ‘easy-to-please’ constructions are bona fide instances of “re…
Current Studies in Italian Syntax: Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
One of the world’s leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. Cinques cutting-edge proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.
‘Topic’ Constructions in some European Languages and ‘Connectedness’
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
1. Introduction (by Cinque, Guglielmo) 2. Rumanian Genitive Constructions (by Cornilescu, Alexandra) 3. Clitic Clusters in Rumanian: Deriving Linear Order from Hierachical Structure (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen) 4. Agreement and Pronominal Reference (by Farkas, Donka F.) 5. Heads and Modifiers among Determiners: Evidence from Rumanian (by Giusti, Giuliana) 6. Free Relatives with Missing Prepositions in Rumanian and Universal Grammar (by Grosu, Alex…
The ‘antisymmetric’ programme: Theoretical and typological implications
Kayne's antisymmetric theory introduces a tightening of the relation between hierarchical structure and linear order
Ergative adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis
On the Theory of Relative Clauses and Markedness
Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions
Of the 24 mathematically possible orders of the four elements demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, only 14 appear to be attested in the languages of the world. Some of these are unexpected under Greenberg's Universal 20. Here it is proposed that the actually attested orders, and none of the unattested ones, are derivable from a single, universal, order of Merge (Dem > Num > Adj > N) and from independent conditions on phrasal movement
Issues in adverbial syntax
Functional Categories and Syntactic Theory
The distinction between lexical and functional elements plays a major role in current research in syntax and neighboring aspects of the study of language. In this article, we review the motivations of a progressive shift of emphasis from lexical to functional elements in syntactic research: the identification of the functional lexicon as the locus of the triggering of syntactic actions and of syntactic variation, and the description and analysis …
Ergative adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis
Cognition, universal grammar, and typological generalizations
The ‘antisymmetric’ programme: Theoretical and typological implications
Kayne's antisymmetric theory introduces a tightening of the relation between hierarchical structure and linear order
A Note on “Restructuring” and Quantifier Climbing in French
Although Modern French was originally taken to lack the “restructuring” phenomenon altogether, four different “restructuring” effects have more recently been claimed to exist in the language:en andy climbing, quantifier climbing, adverb climbing, and long movement in ‘easy-to-please’ constructions. Evidence discussed in this article shows that only en andy climbing and long movement in ‘easy-to-please’ constructions are bona fide instances of “re…
Domenico Parisi, II linguaggio come processo cognitivo. Torino: Boringhieri. 1972. Pp. 202
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On the Theory of Relative Clauses and Markedness
Ergative adjectives and the Lexicalist Hypothesis
The ‘antisymmetric’ programme: Theoretical and typological implications
Kayne's antisymmetric theory introduces a tightening of the relation between hierarchical structure and linear order
‘Topic’ Constructions in some European Languages and ‘Connectedness’
Advances in Roumanian Linguistics
1. Introduction (by Cinque, Guglielmo) 2. Rumanian Genitive Constructions (by Cornilescu, Alexandra) 3. Clitic Clusters in Rumanian: Deriving Linear Order from Hierachical Structure (by Dobrovie-Sorin, Carmen) 4. Agreement and Pronominal Reference (by Farkas, Donka F.) 5. Heads and Modifiers among Determiners: Evidence from Rumanian (by Giusti, Giuliana) 6. Free Relatives with Missing Prepositions in Rumanian and Universal Grammar (by Grosu, Alex…
Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
One of the world’s leading syntacticians presents evidence for locating Adverb Phrases in the specifiers of distinct functional projections within a novel and well articulated theory of the clause. In this theory, both adverbs and heads, which encode the functional notions of the clause, are ordered in a rigid sequence. Cinques cutting-edge proposal suggests that the structure of natural language sentences is much richer than previously assumed.
Current Studies in Italian Syntax: Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi
Functional Structure in DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 1
This edited volume presents the first results of a long term research project, funded by the Italian Government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. Structural representations are seen to arise from the combinations of two kinds syntactic atoms: lexical elements (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) and functional elements (determiners, complementizers and va…
Functional structure in DP and IP
A Note on “Restructuring” and Quantifier Climbing in French
Although Modern French was originally taken to lack the “restructuring” phenomenon altogether, four different “restructuring” effects have more recently been claimed to exist in the language:en andy climbing, quantifier climbing, adverb climbing, and long movement in ‘easy-to-please’ constructions. Evidence discussed in this article shows that only en andy climbing and long movement in ‘easy-to-please’ constructions are bona fide instances of “re…
Issues in adverbial syntax
Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions
Of the 24 mathematically possible orders of the four elements demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun, only 14 appear to be attested in the languages of the world. Some of these are unexpected under Greenberg's Universal 20. Here it is proposed that the actually attested orders, and none of the unattested ones, are derivable from a single, universal, order of Merge (Dem > Num > Adj > N) and from independent conditions on phrasal movement
Restructuring and Functional Heads: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures, Volume 4
This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other language groups as well. The second part focuses on the consequences of treating clausal functional heads as members of a universal hierarchy in the domain of morphpsyntax, offering a n…
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Syntax
The Fundamental Left-Right Asymmetry of Natural Languages
The Scandinavian Languages
The Syntax of Adjectives: A Comparative Study
A new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence. In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic evidence that adjectives have two sources. Arguing against the standard view, and reconsidering his own earlier analysis, Cinque proposes that adjectives enter the nominal phase either as “adverbial” modifiers to the noun or as predicates of reduced relative clauses. Some of his evidence comes from a systematic co…
Mapping Spatial PPs
Cinque, Guglielmo Mapping PPs: an introduction Koopman, Hilda Prepositions, Postpositions, Circumpositions, and Particles den Dikken, Marcel On the functional structure of locative and directional PPs Svenonius, Peter Spatial P in English Noonan, Maire A to zu Terzi, Arhonto Locative Prepositions and Place Aboh, Enoch The P Route Abraham, Werner P-Case government, misleading homonymies, and economical PPs Indices
The Nominal Structure in Slavic and Beyond
The contributions in this volume shed new light on the discussion of whether the DP hypothesis applies universally or not. The issue is prominent not only for Slavic languages. Drawing on evidence from many other languages, Greek, East Asian, and Basque among them, the book has important implications for answering fundamental questions about the nature of definiteness and quantification.
Cognition, universal grammar, and typological generalizations
A source of parametric variation in the lexicon
An influential conjecture concerning parameters is that they can possibly be “restricted to formal features of functional categories” (Chomsky 1995: 6). In Rizzi (2009, 2011) such features are understood as instructions triggering one of the following syntactic actions: (1) External Merge; (2) Internal Merge (Move); (3) Pronunciation/Non pronunciation (the latter arguably dependent on Internal Merge – Kayne 2005a, b). In this article I consider a…
Functional Categories and Syntactic Theory
The distinction between lexical and functional elements plays a major role in current research in syntax and neighboring aspects of the study of language. In this article, we review the motivations of a progressive shift of emphasis from lexical to functional elements in syntactic research: the identification of the functional lexicon as the locus of the triggering of syntactic actions and of syntactic variation, and the description and analysis …
Notes on the multiple ambiguity of Bulgarian mnogo
This paper discusses the ambiguity of the Bulgarian quantity word mnogo and argues that it is not an intensifier stricto sensu, although it can also have such a usage. Comparing mnogo with its Italian counterparts troppo, tanto, and molto, we show that it corresponds more precisely to Italian tanto (English much), which can be modified by overt intensifiers like così (così tanto) or silent ones like molto/troppo (tanto), etc. (cf. English so/very…
On the status of functional categories (heads and phrases)
In this article I would like to revisit one aspect of the structure of the functional sequence of the clause in light of certain recent developments, in particular Kayne’s (2016) proposal that all heads are necessarily silent. I will also discuss the possibility that (certain) silent heads may be endowed with single features that denote complex notions taking progressive aspect as a case in point
Linguistics (20 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (8 works) · Comparative and general Grammar (7 works) · Grammar, comparative and general, syntax (7 works) · History (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Syntax (7 works)