none 10.1075/la.226.09gar John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 79395885 2065399 1420043 202507022308000037 10.1075 2025-07-02T17:08:42Z 2015-12-14T08:41:26Z 52 0166-0829 10.1075/la https://benjamins.com/ catalog/la Josef Bayer University of Konstanz https://ror.org/0546hnb39 Roland Hinterhölzl Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia https://ror.org/04yzxz566 Andreas Trotzke University of Konstanz https://ror.org/0546hnb39 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3943-4282 Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of non-at-issue meaning operating at the level of illocutionary force. To approach this domain, many of the contributions of this volume deal with the syntax of discourse particles. However, the issue of how to account for discourse particles within a more explicit map of the illocutionary domain is a good starting point for considering further phenomena related to the syntax of speech acts. By focusing on speech-act related particles and/or meaning domains, this volume makes a new contribution to the field, as existing collections either do not offer a comparatively narrow focus on particles or are not limited to syntax-oriented approaches. The primary audience of this volume are researchers and graduate students interested in state-of-the-art approaches to the syntax-discourse interface within the cartographic approach to syntax. 226 12 16 2015 12 14 2015 9789027257093 9789027267726 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/la.226 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027267726 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.226/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027267726.pdf Jacopo Garzonio Universita` Ca’ Foscari Venezia https://ror.org/04yzxz566 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6632-4129 Cecilia Poletto Goethe-Universität Frankfurt https://ror.org/04cvxnb49 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4778-0812 This article considers some constructions related with polarity emphasis in standard Italian and Italian dialects. In particular, the authors examine two constructions where the polarity particle is accompanied by a repetition of the whole propositional content of the stimulus assertion or question. The analysis of these cases is based on the idea that emphasis requires the syntactic presence of the proposition that has to be denied or confirmed. It is argued that the two constructions are not derivationally related, but are the two possible syntactic realizations of the same discourse context. The internal structure of emphatic constructions is also taken into consideration and compared with cases attested in the dialectal domain where polarity emphasis is marked by a special form of the polarity particle. All the examined cases suggest that polarity emphasis is a root phenomenon and the authors argue that this is explained by the presence of some ‘speaker oriented’ features and projections only in root left peripheries. 12 16 2015 12 14 2015 211 228 10.1075/la.226.09gar https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.226.09gar https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/la.226.09gar/html The Structure of CP and IP Benincà 52 2004 Topic, focus and V2: Defining the CP sublayers 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.02.004 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199759613.001.0001 About the Speaker: Towards a Syntax of Indexicality Giorgi 2010 10.1515/flin.41.3-4.279 10.1017/S1360674309990165 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.07.007 10.1162/LING_a_00014 STUF. Language Typology and Universals 64 Lühr 114 2011 Focus pronouns in Old Latin reflexive constructions 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.016 Grammatica Storica della Lingua Italiana e dei suoi Dialetti. Fonetica Rohlfs 1966 Studi Linguistici in Onore di Roberto Gusmani Sornicola 1651 2006 Un problema di linguistica generale: La definizione e la giustificazione degli espletivi