Topicalization, Dislocation and Clitic Resumption

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21398811
AutoresSilvio Cruschina (0000-0002-8082-8232, Department of Languages University of Helsinki P.O. Box 24, Metsätalo, Unioninkatu 40 Helsinki 00014 Finland, autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume76
Fascículo2
Páginas354-380
Data de publicação2022-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoStudia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/stul.12175
OpenAlexW3216667229
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas42

Romance languages make use of syntactic topicalization strategies to mark various kinds of topic constituents, typically under Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) or Clitic Right Dislocation (CLRD). Despite the great deal of attention that these phenomena have received in the last decades, different analyses have been proposed and several questions are still controversial. In this paper, I focus on the role and distribution of clitic resumption in Italian topicalization constructions with the aim of identifying the syntactic properties that correlate with the overt presence of the resumptive clitic. The apparent optionality of the clitic is subject to variation across Romance and reflects structural differences, showing that non‐resumed left dislocation actually corresponds to a structure other than CLLD. The ultimate goal of this analysis is thus to provide evidence in support of the movement analysis of CLLD, and against recent revivals of the base‐generation or adjunction approach, by arguing that left dislocation with and without clitic resumption corresponds to two distinct types of A'‐movement

Clitic · Dislocation · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Physics · Romance · Romance languages · Subject (documents) · Topicalization · Variation (astronomy) · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation