Giuliano Bocci

List of John Benjamins publications in which Giuliano Bocci is involved.

Titles

The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky

Edited by Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins

What is the extent to which various grammatical levels – from features through subjecthood through cleft layers – reuse and reemploy certain structure-building operations? In this volume, organized in terms of successively expanding domains, leading contributors report research into the complex… read more

[Language Faculty and Beyond, 20] 2025. xv, 577 pp. | open access

The Syntax–Prosody Interface: A cartographic perspective with evidence from Italian

Giuliano Bocci

This book presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of the interplay between information structure, word order alternations, and prosody in Italian. Left/right dislocations, focus fronting, and other reordering phenomena are analyzed, taking into account their morphosyntactic and… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 204] 2013. ix, 213 pp.

Articles

Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Ur Shlonsky 2025 Chapter 26. Long wh questions in French: Negation doesn’t intervene where? The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 532–551 | Chapter

This study investigates the interaction between negation and wh-dependencies in French long-distance questions. An acceptability judgment experiment tested 12 conditions, comparing in situ and ex situ wh phrases in positive contexts, under matrix negation, and under embedded negation. Wh… read more

Bianchi, Valentina, Giuliano Bocci and Silvio Cruschina 2015 Focus fronting and its implicatures Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2013: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Amsterdam 2013, Aboh, Enoch O., Jeannette Schaeffer and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article

In this paper we investigate the essential semantic and pragmatic features associated with Focus Fronting (FF) in Italian, with the ultimate aim of identifying the actual trigger of this syntactic operation. After introducing the different contexts that could in principle be compatible with FF, we… read more