Denis Delfitto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Denis Delfitto plays a role.
2022 Inside names: A contextualist approach to the syntax and semantics of direct reference Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:2, pp. 153–190 | Article
In this contribution, we offer a contextualist analysis of names whereby a name N is used as a felicitous referential term in all and only those contexts of utterance in which N is intended to refer to a unique referent by all cognitive agents that are relevant in the context. This analysis has… read more
2019 The (en)rich(ed) meaning of expletive negation Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 1:1, pp. 57–89 | Article
This contribution addresses the issue of one of the instances of non-standard negation, the so-called expletive negation (EN). Though it discusses data from a variety of languages, it mainly concentrates on Italian, proposing that the behavior of EN in comparative, exclamative and temporal… read more
2018 The comprehension of Italian negation in Mandarin-Italian sequential bilingual children On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance, Gavarró, Anna (ed.), pp. 169–184 | Chapter
This study investigates how sequential bilingual Mandarin-speaking children who had more than three years of exposure to Italian comprehended Italian negative sentences in comparison with affirmative ones. Sixteen bilingual children and 16 Italian monolingual peers were tested using a truth-value… read more
2015 Exhaustivity operators and fronted focus in Italian Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti, Di Domenico, Elisa, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini (eds.), pp. 163–180 | Article
In this contribution we present an original analysis of Fronted Focus in Italian (contrastive/corrective focus in the terminology of Belletti 2004), based on the insight that Fronted Focus can be decomposed into Contrast and the Exhaustivity Operator involved in the computation of grammaticalized… read more
2009 Prepositionless genitive and N+N compounding in (Old) French and Italian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2006: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Amsterdam, 7–9 December 2006, Torck, Danièle and W. Leo Wetzels (eds.), pp. 53–72 | Article
In this contribution, we examine four cases of prepositionless genitive assignment:
(a) certain alleged cases of N+N composition in Modern Italian that respond
positively to important diagnostics for syntactic behavior; (b) the so-called Juxtaposition
Genitive widely attested in Old French; (c) the… read more
2005 On Facts in the Syntax and Semantics of Italian Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs (eds.), pp. 15–35 | Article
1991 Review of Baker (1988): Incorporation. A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing Studies in Language 15:1, pp. 115–128 | Review