Francesca Ramaglia
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Ramaglia plays a role.
Articles
2014 The interpretation of clefting (a)symmetries between Italian and German Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2012: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' Leuven 2012, Lahousse, Karen and Stefania Marzo (eds.), pp. 65–90 | Article
This paper proposes a comparative investigation of clefts in German and Italian. Assuming a specificational copular analysis, the properties of clefts in these languages are argued to rely on independent properties of relative clauses and nominal predicates. The major morpho-syntactic (a)symmetries… read more
2013 ‘Phasing’ contrast at the interfaces: A feature-compositional approach to Topics Information Structure and Agreement, Camacho-Taboada, Victoria, Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Javier Martín-González and Mariano Reyes-Tejedor (eds.), pp. 55–82 | Article
This paper is concerned with the interpretation of markedness at the interfaces. Special attention is given to the analysis of (specific types of) Topic constituents, aimed to show the feature-compositional nature of discourse categories. In particular, the notion of contrast is addressed, showing… read more
2013 (Pseudo)clefts at the syntax-prosody-discourse interface Cleft Structures, Hartmann, Katharina and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), pp. 97–138 | Article
This paper proposes an interface approach to (pseudo)cleft constructions, in which their semantic, syntactic, discourse and intonational properties are examined in a cross-linguistic perspective. Following most influential studies, the relevant constructions are analyzed as specificational copular… read more