Caterina Bonan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Caterina Bonan is involved.

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Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation

Caterina Bonan

This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] 2021. xiv, 252 pp.

Article

Bonan, Caterina 2021 On focal and wh -projections, indirect wh -questions, and quantificational chains Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 73–90 | Chapter

In this chapter, I investigate the cartography of focus using novel data from non-standard Italian (non-StandIT) and Trevigiano, a Venetan dialect. I argue that focus is less constrained in indirect wh-questions in these varieties than in Standard Italian (StandIT). Indeed, in Trevigiano both… read more