Current Studies in Italian Syntax. Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi

Preface Syntactic intervention effects on Italian polarity items, P. Acquaviva Speculations on the possible source of expletive negation in Italian comparative clauses, A. Belletti The position of topic and focus on the left periphery, P. Beninca Aspect prefixes in verbal periphrases in Italian and other Romance languages, F. Benucci "Propulsive" tenses in modern Italian fictional prose, P.M. Bertinetto A second thought on emarginazione: destressing vs. "right dislocation", A. Cardinaletti "Restructuring" and the order of aspectual and root modal heads, G. Cinque The birth of a functional category: from Latin ILLE to the Romance article and personal pronoun, G. Giusti Romance causatives and dynamic antisymmetry, M.T. Guasti, A. Moro A note on clitic doubling in French, R.S. Kayne Either "subject oriented" or merely sentential, L. Lonzi The syntax of object clitics: si in Italian dialects, M.R. Manzini, L.M. Savoia Complementizer deletion and verb movement in standard Italian, C. Poletto On the position "int(errogative)" in the left periphery of the clause, L. Rizzi The two sentence structures of Early Romance, G. Salvi Evidence for a null locative in Italian, C.M. Tortora