Cristiano Chesi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cristiano Chesi is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 19. Insights into post-verbal argument reordering in Hebrew and Italian The Ziggurat of Grammar: In honor of Ur Shlonsky, Baunaz, Lena, Giuliano Bocci and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 403–415 | Chapter
Reordering the direct and indirect arguments of ditransitive predicates can be achieved either by moving the first argument over the second or vice versa. The first strategy is subject to strict structural constraints. Here we discuss some of these structural, prosodic, and semantic constraints… 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
2013 Rightward movement from a different perspective Rightward Movement in a Comparative Perspective, Webelhuth, Gert, Manfred Sailer and Heike Walker (eds.), pp. 243–280 | Article
A left-to-right (Phillips 1996) top-down (Chesi 2004, 2007) Minimalist Grammar is a generative procedure that operates on lexical items of a given language using minimalist structure building operations in order to isolate the best possible approximation of the (infinite) set of well-formed… read more