Silvio Cruschina specialises in Romance linguistics and in the history and structure of the Romance languages, in particular Italian, Sicilian, and other dialects of Italy. He studied at the Universities of Siena and Cambridge. His doctorate (Cambridge, 2008/2009) was on the interaction between syntax and pragmatics and on the correspondences between word order alternations and interpretive effects in Romance, within a cartographic approach to syntactic structures. His research interests include generative syntax, morphology, phonology, evidentiality, historical linguistics, and morphosyntactic change.
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| Journal Articles and Selected Proceedings |
2010
2010
2008
2006
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‘On the syntactic status of sentential adverbs and modal particles’ . STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung 63(4): 345-357. Special issue on “Database on evidentiality markers in European languages” edited by Björn Wiemer & Katerina Stathi.
‘Syntactic Extraposition and Clitic Resumption in Italian.’ Lingua 120 (1): 50-73.
‘Hearsay and reported speech: Evidentiality in Romance’ (with Eva Remberger). In Selected Proceedings of the XXXIV Incontro di Grammatica Generativa, Rivista di Grammatica Generativa 33: 95-116. Special issue edited by P. Benincà, F. Damonte & N. Penello.
‘Il vocalismo della Sicilia centrale: il tratto [ATR], metafonesi e armonia vocalica.’
Rivista Italiana di Dialettologia, 30: 75-101.
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Book Contributions |
2010
2006
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‘Fronting as Focalisation in Sicilian’. In D’Alessandro Roberta, Ledgeway Adam and Ian Roberts (eds.) Syntactic Variation. The Dialects of Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 247-260.
‘Informational focus in Sicilian and the left periphery’. In Mara Frascarelli (ed.) Phases of Interpretation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 363-385. |
| Proceedings and Working Papers |
2010
2009
2009
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‘Aspetti morfologici e sintattici degli avverbi in siciliano.’ Quaderni di Lavoro ASIt n.11: Studi sui dialetti della Sicilia, Jacopo Garzonio (ed.), pp. 21-42. Padova: Unipress.
‘The syntactic role of discourse-related features.’ Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 5: 15-30.
‘Focus Fronting in Sardinian and Sicilian’ (with Eva Remberger). Proceedings of the XXXV Incontro di Grammatica Generativa. University of Siena, STiL-CISCL Working Papers 3: 118-130.
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