Licensing and interpretation of inverted subjects in Italian
By: Manuela Pinto.
Series: UiL OTS dissertation series
Publisher: LEd
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Utrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Italian language -- Noun phrase.; Italian language -- Word order.
Description: "This study aims at identifying the structural and interpretive primitives involved in the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian and at translating them into formal terms as suggested in Chomsky (1995) and Reinhart (1995, 1996). The modular account we propose analyses the phenomenon of subject inversion as the result of the interaction of the principles of the computational system with the syntactic properties of the subject and with conditions of derivational economy and interface economy"--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252).

Summaries in Dutch and Italian.