Linda Badan
List of John Benjamins publications in which Linda Badan is involved.
2026 On the interpretation of inflected subject clitics Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues, Ciconte, Francesco Maria and Michela Cennamo (eds.), pp. 61–75 | Article
This paper discusses the distribution of subject clitics in nominal copular constructions in the variety of Este (PD) which is a partial pro-drop language where null subjects alternate with subject proclitics: when a postverbal subject NP is present, no subject clitic is allowed with lexical… read more
2023 Dislocazioni a destra interrogative tra grammatica e discorso Revue Romane 58:1, pp. 128–153 | Article
This article deals with clitic right dislocation (CLRD) structures. The interface examination of the interpretative, syntactic and prosodic properties of CLRDs shows that these constructions can be ordered on a scale based to a minor or greater degree of prosodic and syntactic integration… read more
2021 Chapter 8. GEI : Towards a unified account Give Constructions across Languages, Bouveret, Myriam (ed.), pp. 195–222 | Chapter
Gei, ‘give’ in Mandarin Chinese, has been object of many studies due to its multifaceted properties and its ability to appear in a number of different structures. However, previous analyses focus only on some of all the possible structures where gei appears, while excluding others. In this… read more
2021 Chapter 5. Verb-based discourse markers in Italian: Guarda, vedi, guarda te, vedi te Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 143–170 | Chapter
This research deals with verb-based discourse markers in the regional Italian of Veneto: guarda (te) ‘look you’, vedi (te) ‘see you’. We show that these markers differ in terms of functions and syntactic features. We argue that the functions differ depending on the discourse markers’ syntactic… read more