Focus in Existential Sentences
Focus in Existential Sentences
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2012
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C. Chesi
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Silvio Cruschina;V. Bianchi;C. Chesi
本文从存在句焦点的外延问题入手，对意大利语存在句的真假两种类型进行了分类。四种主要类型将被确定：(I)存在句，(Ii)反转处所，(Iii)指示处所，和(Iv)陈述句。结果表明，这一分类可能有助于揭示意大利语与英语等其他语言在众所周知的现象和限制方面的明显差异，如确定性效应。我们将针对所识别的每一种句子类型来考察该构式中出现的成分的语用、语义和句法属性。按照图解的方法，我们将从语篇相关的句法操作的角度来分析意大利语中特定结构(类型II和类型III)的存在，这些句法操作与小句内指定的功能投影有关，例如动词后主语的聚焦和旧信息成分的错位。相反，第四类将被认为是意大利语特有的语法化过程的结果，至少是同步的，与真正的存在句无关。
Starting from the question of the extension of the focus in existential constructions, this paper primarily aims to draw up a classification of both genuine and spurious types of existential sentences in Italian. Four major types will be identified: (I) existential sentences, (II) inverse locatives, (III) deictic locatives, and (IV) presentational sentences. It will be shown that this classification may shed new light on the apparent differences between Italian and other languages, such as English, with regard to well-known phenomena and restrictions such as the definiteness effects. The pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic properties of the elements occurring in this construction will be examined with respect to each type of sentence identified. Following the cartographic approach, the existence of particular structures in Italian (types II and III) will be analysed in terms of discourse-related syntactic operations associated with designated functional projections within the clause, such as the focalization of postverbal subjects and the dislocation of old-information constituents. Type IV, instead, will be argued to be the result of a process of grammaticalization peculiar to Italian and, at least synchronically, unrelated to genuine existential sentences.
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DOI：
10.1515/zrph.2011.005
发表时间：
2011
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Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP)
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Bentley D