Valentina Bianchi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valentina Bianchi is involved.
2025 Chapter 10. Subjects and situations in copular sentences The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 185–199 | Chapter
Shlonsky (2000) identified distinct syntactic positions in Hebrew copular sentences. This paper discusses copular sentences in Italian and provides arguments for a “subject” position to which one of the two DPs move: the logical subject in direct structures, and the predicative DP in inverse… read more
2015 On a PP/DP asymmetry in extraction Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 47–66 | Article
Preverbal subject DPs in English seem to allow for the extraction of a PP complement, but not of a DP complement stranding the preposition of. Assuming a top-down computation, we argue that an extracted PP cannot be re-merged within a criterial preverbal subject (in the sense of Rizzi 2006), but it… read more
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
2013 On ‘focus movement’ in Italian Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.), pp. 193–216 | Article
In this paper I discuss optional movement of focus constituents to the left periphery of the clause in Italian. Restricting my discussion to corrective exchanges – where focus occurs in a reply that denies the preceding assertion – I show that the fronted position and the ‘low’ position are not… read more
2011 Some notes on the ‘specificity effects’of optional resumptive pronouns Resumptive Pronouns at the Interfaces, Rouveret, Alain (ed.), pp. 319–342 | Article
This paper discusses ‘specificity effects’ (Doron 1982) in the light of two recent approaches to resumption: Boeckx’s doubling analysis and Adger & Ramchand’s Agree-chain analysis. Boeckx analyses resumptive pronouns as functional heads encoding specificity; his approach cannot account for certain… read more
2000 Some Issues in the Syntax of Relative Determiners The Syntax of Relative Clauses, Alexiadou, Artemis, Paul Law, André Meinunger and Chris Wilder (eds.), pp. 53–82 | Article