Luigi Rizzi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Luigi Rizzi is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0925-0123
Title
Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective
Edited by Fuzhen Si and Luigi Rizzi
This book illustrates recent developments in cartographic studies, seen from a comparative perspective. The different chapters explore various aspects of theoretical and descriptive syntax, bearing on such topics as selection, causativity, binding, light verb constructions, the structure of the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 267] 2021. vi, 328 pp.
2025 Chapter 1. Featural mismatches and the comprehension of relative clauses in French: Comparing gender and number The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 2–19 | Chapter
Children’s difficulties with object relatives, linked to intervention effects (Friedmann et al. 2009), can be modulated by finer-grained featural mismatches between the moved object and the embedded subject. We investigated the effect of gender and number featural mismatches and the role of… read more
2021 Chapter 1. Introduction: On the comparative basis of cartographic studies Current Issues in Syntactic Cartography: A crosslinguistic perspective, Si, Fuzhen and Luigi Rizzi (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2020 Informal formal conversation on Syntax-Semantics Brazilian Portuguese, Syntax and Semantics: 20 years of Núcleo de Estudos Gramaticais, Pires De Oliveira, Roberta, Ina Emmel and Sandra Quarezemin (eds.), pp. 7–30 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 10. A note on left-peripheral maps and interface properties Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 149–160 | Chapter
The cartographic analysis of the left periphery leads to the identification of invariant and variable properties in the syntactic expression of scope-discourse configurations, such as topic-comment and focus-presupposition. One notable property is that languages typically permit a unique focus in… read more
2016 EPP and ECP revisited: The role of labeling Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon, Carrilho, Ernestina, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira (eds.), pp. 211–232 | Article
In the GB framework, EPP and ECP are stated as two independent principles, but they both attribute a special status to the subject position of clauses: subjects are obligatory, and they are not possible extraction sites (unless special conditions are met). This common core suggests the possibility… read more
2015 Notes on labeling and subject positions Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 17–46 | Article
This paper investigates aspects of the “halting problem” for subject movement: under what conditions is it obligatory? Where must it stop, giving rise to freezing effects? I will first introduce a particular implementation of the labeling approach presented in Chomsky (2013), and illustrate its… read more
2013 A typology of agreement processes and its implications for language development Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2011: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Utrecht 2011, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen, Luisa Meroni and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 143–156 | Article
In this paper we investigated and compared the developmental curve of four different agreement configurations in Italian (Determiner – Noun, Subject – Verb, Subject – Predicative Adjective, Clitic – Past Participle). These configurations can be considered to be more or less local, in accordance to… read more
1996 On the Acquisition of Subject and Object Clitics in French Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons, Clahsen, Harald (ed.), pp. 309–334 | Article
1994 Early Null Subjects and Root Null Subjects Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar, Hoekstra, Teun and Bonnie D. Schwartz (eds.), pp. 151–176 | Article