Jan Casalicchio

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Casalicchio plays a role.

Articles

Casalicchio, Jan and Andrea Padovan 2019 Contact-induced phenomena in the AlpsItalian Dialectology at the Interfaces, Cruschina, Silvio, Adam Ledgeway and Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.), pp. 237–255 | Chapter
The main question underlying this chapter is to what extent language contact can affect syntactic structure. To tackle this issue we examine two relevant phenomena found in two minority languages spoken in the region Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol: clitic climbing in Dolomitic Ladin and the use of… read more
Casalicchio, Jan 2016 The use of gerunds and infinitives in perceptive constructions: The effects of a threefold parametric variation in some Romance varietiesTheoretical Approaches to Linguistic Variation, Bidese, Ermenegildo, Federica Cognola and Manuela Caterina Moroni (eds.), pp. 53–88 | Article
In this article I compare the use of gerunds with perceptive verbs in Spanish and in Gardenese, a Rhaeto-Romance variety spoken in Northern Italy: perceptive gerunds are used as secondary predicates in Spanish but as defective TP-complements in Gardenese. Following Rizzi’s (2014) account of… read more
Casalicchio, Jan 2016 Pseudo-relatives and their left-periphery: A unified accountRomance Languages and Linguistic Theory 10: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 28, Lisbon, Carrilho, Ernestina, Alexandra Fiéis, Maria Lobo and Sandra Pereira (eds.), pp. 23–42 | Article
In this article I propose a new analysis of Pseudo-Relative clauses (‘PRs’) within the Cartographic model (Rizzi 1997 a.o.). Heretofore, the apparently contradictory behavior of PRs in the syntactic tests used to determine their structure has been very problematic. Based on new data from Italian, I… read more