Silent Instruments: Syntax, Semantics, and Acquisition of the Instrumental Role in Italian
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the instrumental role across syntax, semantics, and language acquisition. Focusing primarily on Italian within a comparative perspective, the book addresses a long-standing puzzle: why Instruments can be syntactically omitted even when they remain semantically present.Combining theoretical analysis with experimental evidence, corpus data, and innovative methodologies, the study redefines the status of Instruments with respect to the argument-adjunct distinction and introduces a new, principled account of their syntactic omission based on semantic recoverability. It proposes a refined typology of Instruments, grounded in verb meaning and contextual factors, and tests its predictions through behavioral experiments and large-scale corpus analyses.The book also breaks new ground in acquisition research, presenting the first experimental investigation of how Italian-speaking children acquire Instruments. The results reveal a striking dissociation between early syntactic mastery and the slower development of Instrument semantic recoverability, shedding new light on the acquisition of syntactically optional elements.By integrating syntax, semantics, and acquisition, Silent Instruments provides a robust and empirically grounded framework that is readily applicable to cross-linguistic research and to other phenomena at the syntax-semantics interface. It will be of interest to linguists working on argument structure, optionality, language acquisition, and experimental and corpus-based approaches to grammar.
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Mapping Iberian Studies: Institutional Practices and Disciplinary Crossings
This volume aims to “map” the current situation of Iberian Studies and the way in which the field has been adapted and adopted in different geographic and academic spaces. In the first section, it analyses the cases of success in implementing Iberian Studies, but also the obstacles and resistances it has faced. In the second part of the volume, it examines the fruitful, but also sometimes controversial, crossings between Iberian Studies and other academic fields, such as Hispanism, Catalan, Galician or Basque Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Island Studies, Mediterranean Studies, or World Literature.
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