This article investigates the distributional and information structural (IS) properties of il ya
'there is' clefts in comparison with c'est 'it is' clefts in French. Il ya clefts, which are …

This monograph is the first large-scale corpus analysis of French il ya clefts. While most
research on clefts focusses on the English 'prototypical'it-cleft and its equivalents across …

In questo contributo si discute, con attenzione a aspetti teorici e empirici, la nozione di
italiano neo-standard nel quadro sociolinguistico contemporaneo. Dopo aver introdotto di …

This chapter provides an overview of the main topics concerning the restandardization
process of Italian. We will first discuss some general issues related to the Italian …

Constructions that are typically used to introduce a new referent into the discourse may
extend this function so as to introduce a new event or situation. In this paper, I examine the …

This paper explores the variability of belief systems that underpin standardization dynamics
by investigating the effect of international mobility on attitudes of Italians towards standard …

This article aims to examine whether Italian has theticity and sentence-focus among its
grammatically encoded categories. After the categories of theticity and sentence-focus are …

This paper investigates the information structural and discursive properties of Italian c'è
'there is' clefts (C'è il gatto che ha fame,'There's the cat that is hungry'). We argue by means …

Presentational c'è/il ya clefts in Italian and French have been argued to differ from the
existential and locative constructions they derive from by their syntactic, semantic and …

This article deals with Italian questions with a post-verbal wh-element, which are generally
defined as in situ. We show that post-verbal wh-questions can be interpreted as information …