TY - BOOK ID - 25011990 TI - Italian syntax and universal grammar PY - 1995 VL - 77 SN - 0521475139 0521022924 0511554265 0511887086 9780521475136 9780511554261 9780521022927 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Italian language KW - Grammar KW - Langue italienne KW - --Grammaire comparée KW - -Syntax KW - Syntax KW - --Syntaxe KW - --Syntax KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Language & Linguistics KW - Italian language - Syntax KW - Syntaxe KW - Grammaire comparée KW - Syntax. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:25011990 AB - Guglielmo Cinque is one of the world's leading theoretical syntacticians, and is particularly known for his application of recent theory to the analysis of Italian. This volume brings together ten of Professor Cinque's essays, some of which are published here for the first time, and some of which have not hitherto been easily available. They explore a wide range of aspects of Italian syntax, including the grammar of relative and 'pseudo-relative' clauses in the complement of perception verbs, impersonal si constructions, and the position and argument structure of adjectives in the noun phrase. The volume considers the implications of Cinque's work on Italian syntax for generative grammar more broadly, and compares Italian with the syntax of other Romance and also Germanic languages. It will be welcomed by all those working on Italian syntax, and on theoretical syntax generally. ER -