Should I stay or should I go? Optional focus movement in Italian
Should I stay or should I go? Optional focus movement in Italian
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我应该走还是留?
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2012
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通讯作者:
Giuliano Bocci
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作者:
V. Bianchi;Giuliano Bocci
Optional movement is problematic in two respects. First, recent syntactic analyses assume that the displacement of a constituent is triggered by the need to satisfy a formal requirement, which is implemented in terms of features. According to this view, in (1B′) the direct object bears a [focus] feature, which must be licensed in an appropriate scopal position in the left periphery of the clause (Rizzi 1997). But such featural requirements are assumed to be mandatory, and therefore, the optionality observed in (1B)/(1B′) is unexpected. A similar problem emerges with respect to the interpretation of focus. In the Alternative Semantics approach (Rooth 1992), the focus constituent is interpreted in situ, whereas in one version of the Structured Meaning approach (Krifka 2006), the focus constituent must be displaced in order to create a partitioned structure that can be transparently mapped into a structured meaning (§3.3): from either perspective, optional movement is once again unexpected. The structures (1B) and (1B′) are commonly taken to be fully equivalent with respect to their interpretive properties; in this paper we argue that they are not. In §2 we show that it is possible to distinguish (at least) two types of interpretation, which are felicitous in different