Adriana Belletti

List of John Benjamins publications for which Adriana Belletti plays a role.

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Subjects Language acquisition | Morphology | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Belletti, Adriana 2018 Chapter 3. Objects and subjects in the left periphery: The case of a-TopicsStructuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia, Grimaldi, Mirko, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi (eds.), pp. 57–72 | Chapter
A parallel is highlighted between the linguistic behavior of young Italian-speaking children as emerged in recent experimental work (Belletti and Manetti 2017) with comparative data from other Romance languages such as Balearic Catalan and (previous stages of) Spanish in the domain of a-Topics. A… read more
By reviewing some recent experimental results in the domain of answering strategies in different languages and in the domain of Subject relatives and Object relatives in development (and adult parsing), the paper aims at illustrating the crucial contribution that experimental studies can provide on… read more
Belletti, Adriana 2007 Answering strategies: A view from acquisitionRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005, Baauw, Sergio, Frank Drijkoningen and Manuela Pinto (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article
Different languages adopt different grammatical options - SV, VS orders, (reduced) clefts - to answer the same question on the identification of the subject. The answering strategies are detected through speakers’ grammaticality judgements and through acquisition data, specially adult L2… read more
Belletti, Adriana and Chiara Leonini 2004 Subject inversion in L2 ItalianEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota (eds.), pp. 95–118 | Article
Belletti, Adriana and Cornelia Hamann 2004 On the L2/bilingual acquisition of French by two young children with different source languagesThe Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories, Prévost, Philippe and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 147–174 | Article