Mara Frascarelli
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1004437 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mara Frascarelli |
| PRENOMES | Mara |
| SOBRENOME | Frascarelli |
| ASSINATURA | FRASCARELLI M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8451-3721 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Dislocations and Frames in Somali. Syntax, prosody and discourse at the interfaces
This study investigates the syntax–pragmatics interface of discourse-related categories, focusing on Topics and Frame-setters within the cartographic approach. Previous research has established, on a cross-linguistic basis, that discourse functions are systematically linked to specific syntactic positions in the left periphery and to distinct prosodic properties. Building on this background, the paper examines elements functioning as Frames, whic…
Null Subjects in Non-Pro-Drop Languages
The contrast between languages such as Italian that allow subjects of tensed sentences to be null (i.e., pro-drop languages) and those like French that do not (i.e., non-pro-drop languages) is a classic issue for comparative syntactic research. Nevertheless, while several studies have been dedicated to pro-drop languages, distinguishing across different types, subject omission in non-pro-drop languages is generally misjudged as a marginal or subs…
Confronting Focus Strategies in Finnish and in Italian
Focus is cross-linguistically associated with a number of different strategies, such as fronting, clefting, markers, and prosody. In some cases, the choice between one strategy or another is determined by language-specific rules, while in others, two or more strategies seem to be optional, and thus, somehow "unpredictable". In this experimental study, we investigate the syntactic strategies employed in object focusing in Finnish and in Italian by…
How Much Room for Discourse in Imperative? The Lens of Interface on English, Italian and Spanish
This paper discusses root phenomena in imperative clauses, assuming as diagnostics conversational dynamics and the type of discourse categories that are admitted in their C‐domain, through a systematic comparative interface investigation in three languages (English, Italian and Spanish) based on an original experimental work. This novel perspective sheds new light on the syntax‐semantics mapping and the interface (syntax‐prosody) properties of im…
Subjects, topics and the accusative case alternation in Finnish. A discourse-related “split” account of the Subject function
Copular constructions, existentials and related phenomena. An introduction
Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects. The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian children
Based on the theory proposed in Frascarelli (2007), according to which the interpretation of null subjects depends on an Agree relation between pro and a specific type of Topic (i.e. the A-Topic, cf. Frascarelli & Hinterhölzl 2007), the first objective of this paper is to evaluate this theory from an acquisitional perspective on children from 3 to 9 years old. Furthermore, since the A-Topic is argued to be systematically associated to specific di…
Understanding Partiality in pro-Drop Languages
This article explores the acceptability and interpretation of referential null subjects in several varieties of Spanish (both Peninsular and American varieties) in different syntactic contexts (matrix and embedded) and distinct clause types (under bridge verbs, under factive verbs, and in adverbial clauses). Based on the results of an original online survey, completed by almost 300 respondents all over the world, it is shown that, in contrast wit…
Focus constructions, verb types and the SV/VS order in Italian
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition
International audience
Complementizer Deletion
This chapter reviews the phenomenology of complementizer‐deletion and the approaches that have emerged in successive phases of the generative framework, focusing mainly on English, and distinguishing two subtypes: (i) optional C‐deletion in embedded declarative clauses, and (ii) “Doubly Filled Comp” (DFC) effects in clauses hosting a wh ‐phrase in CP, where the appearance or omission of the local complementizer is subject to diachronic and cross‐…
Linguistic Analysis
This book reconsiders the classic topics of linguistic analysis and reflects on universal aspects of language from a typological and comparative perspective. The aim is to show the crucial interactions which occur at the different levels of grammar (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and pragmatics), illustrating their various roles in the structural organization of the sentence and exploring how interface relations contribute to yield interp…
Scope marking and Focus in Somali
In this paper a novel approach is proposed for a particular type of cleft-like construction in Somali, the waxaa sentence, in which wax is a scope marker . As such, it operates a function choice in the alternative set overtly expressed in the embedded clause, which serves as a semantic restrictor. In this line of analysis, wax requires the realization of a bi-clausal, copular construction in which the relativized presupposition (i.e. the restrict…
Narrow Focus, clefting and predicate inversion
Information Structure in Somali. Evidence from the syntax-phonology interface
The correspondence between grammatical categories and prosodic events is widely acknowledged in the literature and a number of recent works have investigated the syntax–prosody interface and its relation to information structure. In this area of research, this paper provides an analysis of broad and narrow Focus constructions in Somali, based on a corpus of semi-spontaneous conversations between three native speakers of Somali.Evidence is thus pr…
Phases of Interpretation
Types of topics in German and Italian
This paper investigates the phonological and syntactic realization of Topics in German and Italian. Based on a detailed intonational and syntactic analysis of corpus data, it is shown that Topics are not fully recursive (contra Rizzi 1997), but fall into three types that are distinguished phonologically and realized in different syntactic positions. It is argued that there is a systematic correlation between discourse roles and grammatical proper…
Subjects, topics and the interpretation of referential pro
The phonology of Focus and Topic in Italian
The present paper offers evidence for the influence of Focus and Topic constructions on the application of phonological rules in Italian and argues in favor of the phonological grammaticalization of Focus and Topic in this language. Specifically, it will be proposed that the loci for the interaction between the syntactic constituents of Focus and Topic on the one hand and phonology on the other are the Phonological Phrase (henceforth, Φ) and the …
Subjects, topics and the interpretation of referential pro
Narrow Focus, clefting and predicate inversion
Understanding Partiality in pro-Drop Languages
This article explores the acceptability and interpretation of referential null subjects in several varieties of Spanish (both Peninsular and American varieties) in different syntactic contexts (matrix and embedded) and distinct clause types (under bridge verbs, under factive verbs, and in adverbial clauses). Based on the results of an original online survey, completed by almost 300 respondents all over the world, it is shown that, in contrast wit…
Focus constructions, verb types and the SV/VS order in Italian
Confronting Focus Strategies in Finnish and in Italian
Focus is cross-linguistically associated with a number of different strategies, such as fronting, clefting, markers, and prosody. In some cases, the choice between one strategy or another is determined by language-specific rules, while in others, two or more strategies seem to be optional, and thus, somehow "unpredictable". In this experimental study, we investigate the syntactic strategies employed in object focusing in Finnish and in Italian by…
The phonology of Focus and Topic in Italian
The present paper offers evidence for the influence of Focus and Topic constructions on the application of phonological rules in Italian and argues in favor of the phonological grammaticalization of Focus and Topic in this language. Specifically, it will be proposed that the loci for the interaction between the syntactic constituents of Focus and Topic on the one hand and phonology on the other are the Phonological Phrase (henceforth, Φ) and the …
Types of topics in German and Italian
This paper investigates the phonological and syntactic realization of Topics in German and Italian. Based on a detailed intonational and syntactic analysis of corpus data, it is shown that Topics are not fully recursive (contra Rizzi 1997), but fall into three types that are distinguished phonologically and realized in different syntactic positions. It is argued that there is a systematic correlation between discourse roles and grammatical proper…
Subjects, topics and the interpretation of referential pro
Phases of Interpretation
Information Structure in Somali. Evidence from the syntax-phonology interface
The correspondence between grammatical categories and prosodic events is widely acknowledged in the literature and a number of recent works have investigated the syntax–prosody interface and its relation to information structure. In this area of research, this paper provides an analysis of broad and narrow Focus constructions in Somali, based on a corpus of semi-spontaneous conversations between three native speakers of Somali.Evidence is thus pr…
Scope marking and Focus in Somali
In this paper a novel approach is proposed for a particular type of cleft-like construction in Somali, the waxaa sentence, in which wax is a scope marker . As such, it operates a function choice in the alternative set overtly expressed in the embedded clause, which serves as a semantic restrictor. In this line of analysis, wax requires the realization of a bi-clausal, copular construction in which the relativized presupposition (i.e. the restrict…
Narrow Focus, clefting and predicate inversion
Linguistic Analysis
This book reconsiders the classic topics of linguistic analysis and reflects on universal aspects of language from a typological and comparative perspective. The aim is to show the crucial interactions which occur at the different levels of grammar (phonology, morphology, lexicon, syntax and pragmatics), illustrating their various roles in the structural organization of the sentence and exploring how interface relations contribute to yield interp…
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition
International audience
Complementizer Deletion
This chapter reviews the phenomenology of complementizer‐deletion and the approaches that have emerged in successive phases of the generative framework, focusing mainly on English, and distinguishing two subtypes: (i) optional C‐deletion in embedded declarative clauses, and (ii) “Doubly Filled Comp” (DFC) effects in clauses hosting a wh ‐phrase in CP, where the appearance or omission of the local complementizer is subject to diachronic and cross‐…
Topic chains and the interpretation of null subjects. The acquisition of discourse-related strategies in Italian children
Based on the theory proposed in Frascarelli (2007), according to which the interpretation of null subjects depends on an Agree relation between pro and a specific type of Topic (i.e. the A-Topic, cf. Frascarelli & Hinterhölzl 2007), the first objective of this paper is to evaluate this theory from an acquisitional perspective on children from 3 to 9 years old. Furthermore, since the A-Topic is argued to be systematically associated to specific di…
Understanding Partiality in pro-Drop Languages
This article explores the acceptability and interpretation of referential null subjects in several varieties of Spanish (both Peninsular and American varieties) in different syntactic contexts (matrix and embedded) and distinct clause types (under bridge verbs, under factive verbs, and in adverbial clauses). Based on the results of an original online survey, completed by almost 300 respondents all over the world, it is shown that, in contrast wit…
Focus constructions, verb types and the SV/VS order in Italian
Copular constructions, existentials and related phenomena. An introduction
How Much Room for Discourse in Imperative? The Lens of Interface on English, Italian and Spanish
This paper discusses root phenomena in imperative clauses, assuming as diagnostics conversational dynamics and the type of discourse categories that are admitted in their C‐domain, through a systematic comparative interface investigation in three languages (English, Italian and Spanish) based on an original experimental work. This novel perspective sheds new light on the syntax‐semantics mapping and the interface (syntax‐prosody) properties of im…
Subjects, topics and the accusative case alternation in Finnish. A discourse-related “split” account of the Subject function
Confronting Focus Strategies in Finnish and in Italian
Focus is cross-linguistically associated with a number of different strategies, such as fronting, clefting, markers, and prosody. In some cases, the choice between one strategy or another is determined by language-specific rules, while in others, two or more strategies seem to be optional, and thus, somehow "unpredictable". In this experimental study, we investigate the syntactic strategies employed in object focusing in Finnish and in Italian by…
Null Subjects in Non-Pro-Drop Languages
The contrast between languages such as Italian that allow subjects of tensed sentences to be null (i.e., pro-drop languages) and those like French that do not (i.e., non-pro-drop languages) is a classic issue for comparative syntactic research. Nevertheless, while several studies have been dedicated to pro-drop languages, distinguishing across different types, subject omission in non-pro-drop languages is generally misjudged as a marginal or subs…
Dislocations and Frames in Somali. Syntax, prosody and discourse at the interfaces
This study investigates the syntax–pragmatics interface of discourse-related categories, focusing on Topics and Frame-setters within the cartographic approach. Previous research has established, on a cross-linguistic basis, that discourse functions are systematically linked to specific syntactic positions in the left periphery and to distinct prosodic properties. Building on this background, the paper examines elements functioning as Frames, whic…
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