The Structure of CP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic by Luigi Rizzi

By Luigi Rizzi

The aim of this edited quantity is to review the constitution of the inflectional box and the left peripheral box of clauses, usually defined because the platforms of IP (Inflection word, a syntactic type used to explain clauses with no supplement clauses) and CP (Complementizer word, a observe of word marking a supplement clause). With contributions by means of a decide on crew of syntacticians, this article is going to be valuable to students of Italian and Romance languages, and of considerable worth to all linguists drawn to modern study in generative grammar

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E' partito / ha parlato Gianni, has left / has spoken Gianni c. #Gianni e partito / ha parlato. Gianni has left / has spoken 22 THE STRUCTURE OF CP AND IP However, with the appropriate intonation and in the appropriate pragmatic conditions, a postverbal subject can also receive the topic (given information) interpretation: (10) a. Che cosa ha poi fatto Gianni? What has Gianni finally done? b. Ha parlato, Gianni. He has spoken, Gianni. In what follows I will mainly concentrate my attention on the new information focus interpretation, keeping the possibility of exchanges like the one in (10) in mind, as they can provide a direct indication of the fine configuration of the low IP internal area under discussion (see section 5 for more on that).

2. The crucial difference between a direct object and a prepositional object is that the former is a DP while the latter is a PP. 33 Rather, it is the DP embedded within the PP which needs Case and such Case is provided or checked within the PP, due to the presence of P. A Case-related account thus suggests itself, which I will phrase in the following terms. Assume that the direct object must be associated with a relevant Case assigning/checking head. Assume this Caserelated head34 is located outside vP/VP in a position higher than the Focus projection hosting the postverbal subject.

This means that the postverbal subject should fill the peripheral focus position in (24)Bb, and this has a direct consequence for the object. We can think that movement of the subject to the clause-external focus position frees the object to establish the appropriate relation with the VP external Case-assigning head. 1. 43 It appears that sentences resulting from this kind of derivation are relatively acceptable:44 (28) a. 7MARIA, quel giornale, ha comprato. Maria that newspaper has bought b. 7QUEI RAGAZZI, Maria, hanno criticato.

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