Extending Doubling to Non-Local Domains: Complete vs. Partial Copying + Deletion and Related Reconstruction Issues
Adriana Belletti · Akademie Verlag eBooks · 2006
Ever since the original work of Cinque (1977), data like the following have been presented to illustrate the island sensitivity of Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD): (1) a.?(?) Gianni, temo la possibilità che lo arrestino. Gianni, I.am.afraid.of the possibility that him(CL) they.will.arrest b.?? A Gianni, sono certo del fatto che gli parleranno. To Gianni, I.am sure of.the fact that to.him(CL) they.will.talk The relatively better status of (1a) can be related to the interference with the so-called Hanging Topic (HT) construction, discussed in Cinque (1990), which shows no island sensitivity at all. (2) illustrates the HT construction. (2) a. Quanto a Gianni, temo la possibilità che lo arrestino. As for Gianni, I.am.afraid.of the possibility that him(CL) they.will.arrest b Quanto a Gianni, sono certo del fatto che gli parleranno. As for Gianni, I.am sure of.the fact that to.him(CL) they.will.talk The traditional approach to these facts assumes that CLLD involves movement, while HT does not. 1 Other approaches, like the one recently developed by Frascarelli (2003),