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An in-depth investigation of contrastive focalisation in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases.

Italian language --- Perspective (Linguistics) --- Clauses. --- Versification. --- Focalization (Linguistics) --- Perspectivity (Linguistics) --- Point of view (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Romance languages --- prosody --- givenness --- syntax --- focus evacuation --- prosody interface --- contrastive focus --- marginalization --- right dislocation --- left periphery --- italian --- p-movement --- Adverb --- Clitic --- Clitic doubling --- Creative Commons license --- Italy --- Object (grammar) --- Social exclusion

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This collection brings together some of Dominique Sportiche's best work, including essays that are published here for the first time. The articles discuss the architecture of syntax in natural languages and Sportiche suggests that languages do not differ at all in their syntactic organization. This view takes shape through the analysis of a variety of syntactic configurations and essays examine what it means to be a Subject, how Case marking functions, how it relates to Agreement, and how Pronominal Clitic Constructions should be analyzed.

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Clauses --- Grammar, Comparative --- Clauses. --- -Clauses --- Sentences --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- movement --- small --- participle --- agreement --- external --- argument --- syntactic --- dependency --- clitic --- doubling

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Nyakyusa is an underdescribed Bantu language spoken by around 800.000 speakers in the Mbeya Region of Tanzania. This book provides a detailled description of the verb in this language. The topics covered include the complex morphophonological and morphological processes as well as verb-to-verb derivation, copula verbs and grammaticalized verbs of motion. The main body of the book consists of a detailed description of tense, aspect and modality constructions, which includes not only an in-depth discussion of their sentence level semantics, but also of their patterns of employment in discourse.

Ngonde language --- Verb. --- Language and languages --- Bantu languages --- Study and teaching --- Verb --- Language and languages - Study and teaching --- Bantu languages - Verb --- Linguistics --- Kintu languages --- Ntu languages --- Sintu languages --- Benue-Congo languages --- mbeya region --- verb --- tanzania --- modality --- aspect --- tense --- bantu languages --- Aguna language --- Clitic --- Nyakyusa language --- Past tense --- Perfective aspect --- Simple present --- Subject (grammar) --- Subjunctive mood