Davide Garassino

List of John Benjamins publications in which Davide Garassino is involved.

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When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure

Edited by Davide Garassino and Daniel Jacob

This volume offers a critical appraisal of the tension between theory and empirical evidence in research on information structure. The relevance of ‘unexpected’ data taken into account in the last decades, such as the well-known case of non-focalizing cleft sentences in Germanic and Romance, has… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 273] 2022. vi, 307 pp.

Masia, Viviana, Davide Garassino, Nicola Brocca and Louis de Saussure 2023 Recalling presupposed information: Evidence from the online processing of presuppositions in political tweets Pragmatics & Cognition 30:1, pp. 92–119 | Article

This article addresses, experimentally, the question of how presuppositions are cognitively processed and retrieved in discourse. In the proposed research, we have administered tweets produced by Italian politicians to native speakers so as to assess how easily they could retrieve the… read more

Garassino, Davide 2022 A contrastive perspective on French and Italian wh-in situ questions: A discourse-pragmatic approach Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives, Rosemeyer, Malte (ed.), pp. 25–57 | Article

This paper offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of French and Italian wh-in situ questions based on spontaneous spoken data. A pragmatic analysis relying on two parameters, propositional activation and pragmatic functions, reveals that the licensing conditions and the use of this… read more

Garassino, Davide 2022 Translation as a source of pragmatic interference? An empirical investigation of French and Italian cleft sentences When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 271–304 | Chapter

In this paper, we pursue two main (interconnected) goals, relying on a comparable and parallel corpus of French and Italian cleft sentences. First, we assess the most typical formal and functional properties of clefts in these languages, while also considering variation due to the different types… read more

Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob 2022 Introduction. When data challenges theory: The analysis of information structure and its paradoxes When Data Challenges Theory: Unexpected and paradoxical evidence in information structure, Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob (eds.), pp. 1–36 | Chapter

This article provides a comprehensive survey on current research on information structure so as to clarify some ‘paradoxical’ effects stemming from the tension between data and theory. Paradoxes are here defined as unexpected data in light of certain assumptions held in mainstream literature. More… read more

De Cesare, Anna-Maria and Davide Garassino 2018 Chapter 9. Adverbial cleft sentences in Italian, French and English: A comparative perspective Focus Realization in Romance and Beyond, García García, Marco and Melanie Uth (eds.), pp. 255–286 | Chapter

The aim of this paper is to offer a multi-layered analysis of adverbial clefts in Italian, French, and English. In particular, we intend to offer a corpus-based study of the syntactic category of the cleft constituent, its semantic type and, finally, the information structure of adverbial clefts.… read more

Garassino, Davide and Daniel Jacob 2018 Polarity focus and non-canonical syntax in Italian, French and Spanish: Clitic left dislocation and sì che / sí que-constructions The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches, Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff (eds.), pp. 227–254 | Chapter

Unlike in Germanic languages, in the Romance family the prosodic realization of polarity focus is strongly restricted. Instead, we observe a wealth of formal means that involve other language domains, such as the lexicon and non-canonical syntax. In this article, we provide a fine-grained analysis… read more