Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini
The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach,… read more
In this work I sharpen the description of Object Clitic Reduplication in Perugino, providing additional, relevant data with respect to the ones described in Di Domenico (2022). In specific, in this work I will deal with the distinction between non-reflexive se and all other clitics (including… read more
Some studies in the field of anaphora resolution have highlighted the fact that even speakers of two nullsubject languages may over-use overt subject pronouns in their null subject second language. Here, we analyze the overt subject pronouns produced in Italian by a group of near-native L2… read more
In previous work (Di Domenico, 2020), I have analyzed the narrative productions of a group of Italian native speakers, in order to investigate whether the core assumption of the Position of Antecedent Hypothesis, proposed by Carminati (2002) for the resolution of intra-sentential pro in Italian,… read more
I concentrate here on Adriana Belletti’s finding (2007, 2009a in particular) that different languages adopt different (but with a constrained variational pattern) strategies to answer the same question concerning the identification of the subject, and that answering strategies of the first language… read more
