Functional structure and case in Italian absolute clauses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159233 |
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| Authors | Martine Gallardo (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Stefano Castiglione (0000-0002-0632-4677, University College London) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5961 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5961 |
| OpenAlex | W4411668554 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Italian absolute clauses have been treated as small clauses under previous analyses (Belletti, 1990; Bruno, 2011), meaning they have been claimed to feature reduced functional structure. Additionally, the way in case assignment within absolute clauses has been analyzed has not been uniform, featuring a range of case assignment mechanisms which are not independently motivated such as case assignment via C (Belletti, 1990) or AspP (Bruno, 2011) In the present study, we develop an non-small clause analysis of Italian absolute clauses, based on adverb and clitic placement, the presence of negation, and certain facts about the C-domain of these clauses. Crucially, under our account, these clauses project both CP and TP. Finally, we account for case assignment within these clauses via a default case mechanism (Egerland 2022; Caha, 2024), thus eschewing ad hoc case assignment mechanisms
Epistemology · Linguistics · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Mathematics · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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