Structures, Syntactic Computations and Acquisition

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Adriana Belletti is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Siena, Italy. Over the years her main research has focused on generative comparative morphosyntax and on different modes of language acquisition and forms of language pathologies. Her previous publications include Structures and Strategies (2009).

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This book collects some of the most significant articles by Adriana Belletti, offering readers a useful tool to see the mutual enrichment between linguistic theory and experimental studies through her work. This book will be of interest to scholars in syntax, language acquisition, and theoretical linguistics.

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Introduction

1. Relatives and passive object relatives in Italian-speaking children and adults: Intervention in production and comprehension

2. On the acquisition of complex derivations with related considerations on poverty of the stimulus and frequency

3. Topics and passives in Italian-speaking children and adults

4. Internal grammar and children's grammatical creativity against poor inputs

5. Contributing to linguistic theory, language description, and the characterization of language development through experimental studies

6. Revisiting the cartography of (Italian) postverbal subjects from different angles with reference to canonicality

7. Labeling (Romance) causatives

8. (Reflexive) Si as a route to passive in Italian

9. On Fin: Italian che, Japanese no, and the selective properties of the copula in clefts

10. The focus map of clefts: Extraposition and predication

11. Revisiting the CP of clefts

12. On *a-*marking of object topics in the Italian left periphery

13. Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-topics
    Index