Existentials and Locatives in Romance Dialects of Italy
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1: Existentials and locatives in Romance dialects of Italy
1.1 An overview of existentials and other there sentences
1.1.1 Existentials: Romance and beyond
1.2 Scope and objectives of the volume
1.3 Authorship, methodology, theoretical underpinnings of the research
1.3.1 The Manchester projects on existential constructions
1.3.2 Role and Reference Grammar
1.4 Acknowledgements
1.5 Outline of the volume
2: Focus structure
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 The notions of focus and topic
2.1.2 Focus structure types
2.2 Sentence-focus existentials with no overt topic
2.2.1 Morphosyntactic properties
2.2.2 Stage-level topics and contextual domain
2.3 Existentials with an overt topic
2.3.1 Locative aboutness topics
2.3.2 Partitive topics and the split-focus structure
2.4 Argument-focus there sentences
2.4.1 Inverse locatives
2.4.2 Deictic locatives
2.5 Presentational there sentences
2.6 Conclusion
3: Predication and argument realization
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The locative hypothesis
3.2.1 The correspondence of copulas and proforms
3.2.2 The definiteness effect on word order
3.3 The pivot-as-predicate hypothesis
3.3.1 Finite agreement
3.3.2 Supporting evidence
3.3.3 Challenges
3.3.4 Synopsis
3.4 Predication and argument realization in there sentences
3.4.1 Two types of existential construction
3.4.2 The correspondence of copulas and proforms revisited
3.4.3 Argument structure and predication in other there sentences
3.4.4 Synopsis
3.5 Conclusion
4: Definiteness effects and linking
4.1 Definiteness effects: the Romance puzzle
4.2 Subject canonicality and word order
4.3 Subject canonicality and agreement
4.3.1 The differential marking of the post-copular noun phrase
4.3.2 The case of pivots with inde-cliticization
4.3.3 Specificity effects
4.3.4 Beyond existential sentences
4.3.5 Agreement and the impersonal hypothesis
4.3.6 Synopsis
4.4 Semantics-syntax linking in there sentences
4.4.1 Linking in existential there sentences
4.4.2 Linking in other there sentences
4.5 Conclusion
5: Historical context
5.1 Introduction
5.2 There sentences in Latin
5.2.1 Classical Latin
5.2.2 Existential vs. attributive and locative constructions
5.2.3 Late Latin
5.3 There sentences in early Italo-Romance
5.3.1 Typology of there sentences in early Italo-Romance
5.3.2 The emergence of the proform
5.3.3 Evidence from early Tuscan
5.3.4 The reanalysis of the proform
5.3.5 Copulas and agreement
5.3.6 Expletives
5.4 Conclusion
6: Conclusion
Appendix 1: Early Romance sources
Appendix 2: Latin sourcesFrancesco Maria Ciconte
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Index of languages
Index of names
Index of subjects
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