Costrutti con ordine marcato nell'Italiano contemporaneo

• Authors: Nicola Cardia

Title variants

EN

Marked constructions in contemporary Italian

• Languages of publication: IT

Abstracts

EN

In the introductory part of our contribution we focused our attention on word order in Italian and we tried to approximate the most specific morphosyntactic attributes of Italian in comparison to other Romance and inflected languages. The unusual flexibility of several syntagmas (for example adjectives), as well as the continuous tendency towards distortion of the basic word order in Italian is manifested by a wide range of marked constructions. These, however, are phenomena that can be recorded even in the earlier literary Works (in particular, the so-called left dislocation and other marked constructions), such as the so-called cleft sentence. We examined these phenomena both from the diachronic and the synchronic perspective in comparison to Slovak and Slavonic languages. In the end, we stress the importance of some breakthrough considerations of the Czech linguist Mathesius, who developed a theory of word order as the most significant factor of the so-called "functional sentence perspective" of inflected languages.

Keywords

EN

flexibility; word order; marked construction; left dislocation; cleft sentences

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Linguistica Pragensia
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 57-74
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Nicola Cardia

• Linguistica Pragensia, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic