In this provocative work, Luigi Burzio argues that many common assumptions within stress
theory, and phonological theory more generally, are in fact rather arbitrary. He proposes …

A Linguistic History of Italian offers a clear and concise explanation of why modern Italian
grammar has become the way it is. It focuses on the effects of historical changes on the …

Generative phonology is a developing field of linguistics, and is producing both rival
interpretations and models. This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of the …

This book makes accessible the major structural features of the dialects of Italy and
emphasises the importance of a detailed understanding of the dialects for issues in general …

This article argues that there can only be one chunk-defining device in grammar: a theory
cannot afford to have the same work done twice, once by phases, a second time by prosodic …

Raddoppiamento fonosintattico is an Italian sandhi phenomenon whereby monoand
polysyllabic words ending in a stressed vowel trigger gemination of the initial consonant of …

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or
sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long …

Questo lavoro costituisce una versione riveduta e corretta della mia tesi di dottorato,
discussa presso l'Università di Paris X–Nanterre il 4 gennaio 2002, e realizzata in cotutela …

This book evaluates the predictions of syllable-based analyses of Italian in three domains:
native speaker intuition of consonant cluster syllabification, definite article allomorphy, and …

This study proposes a unified account of consonant gemination in external sandhi in Italian,
also known as Raddoppiamento phenomena. As opposed to the common interpretation of …