Claudia Crocco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Claudia Crocco plays a role.
2023 Alternating Italian thetic and sentence-focus constructions: A case study Revue Romane 58:2, pp. 246–277 | Article
In this article we study the alternation between the two most prominent Italian thetic and sentence-focus constructions, viz. the Syntactic Inversion Construction (henceforth: SIC), e.g. Arriva il treno (‘The train is arriving’), and the Presentational Cleft (henceforth: PC), e.g. C’è il treno… read more
2023 Discussing humanist education in the vernacular: The dialogue Il grammatico and the 16th-century debate on languages Revue Romane 58:1, pp. 154–177 | Article
This article contributes to the study of the relationship between Latin and Tuscan vernacular in the 16th century. We examine a set of almost neglected grammatical works (the Concetti, Supplimento, and Il grammatico) published between 1557 and 1567, and related to the Italian humanist Aonio… read more
2023 Dislocazioni a destra interrogative tra grammatica e discorso Revue Romane 58:1, pp. 128–153 | Article
This article deals with clitic right dislocation (CLRD) structures. The interface examination of the interpretative, syntactic and prosodic properties of CLRDs shows that these constructions can be ordered on a scale based to a minor or greater degree of prosodic and syntactic integration… read more
2022 Information structure and Jespersen’s cycle: The dialects of Veneto as a window on processes of language change Language Change at the Interfaces: Intrasentential and intersentential phenomena, Catasso, Nicholas, Marco Coniglio and Chiara De Bastiani (eds.), pp. 35–60 | Chapter
In this paper we report the results of an exploratory experiment aiming to examine the division of labour between syntax, phonology, and information structure in linguistic change, in particular, Jespersen’s cycle. According to previous literature, new expressions of negation start out from… read more
2018 In search for polarity contrast marking in Italian: A contribution from echo replies The Grammatical Realization of Polarity Contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches, Dimroth, Christine and Stefan Sudhoff (eds.), pp. 255–288 | Chapter
This paper examines polarity contrast marking in Italian, analyzing replies to questions and assertions in Map Task dialogues and read speech. We examine the frequency of echo replies, their syntactic and prosodic properties, and the frequency of verum focus. The results show that echo replies are… read more
2015 Tipicità delle costruzioni presentative per l’italiano neostandard Revue Romane 50:1, pp. 30–50 | Article
The aim of this paper is to examine the distribution of presentative constructions in contemporary Italian and to verify whether their occurrence depends on language external factors. Presentative constructions have been studied particularly by Italian linguists during the Eighties, and were… read more