Topic, Focus and V2: defining the CP sublayers

By Paola Benincà, C. Poletto. 2004

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The fine structure of the left periphery: COMPs and subjects Evidence from Romance (2007, methodology): “It was mentioned above that Benincà and Poletto (2004) argue for a hierarchical order within the Top and Foc fields, in particular they claim that contrastive focus is higher than information focus.”
The Cartography of Syntactic Structures (2009, background): “Preliminary inquiries on the functional hierarchies of the left periphery of the clause (Rizzi 1997, 2001, 2004a,b; Benincà 2001,2006, Benincà and Poletto 2004; Bocci 2004; Benincà and Munaro to appear; Cruschina 2006; Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl.”
The Italian Left Periphery: A View from Locality (2012, unknown): “…be relativized if and only if it is possible to construe that element as the topic (more recently, comparable claims about a relation between topicalization and relativization have been made in Bianchi 2004:93–94 and Bayer and Salzmann 2010, both building on Rizzi’s (2001b) treatment of D-linking).”
Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old (2017, background): “…Left Dislocated [ List Interpretation [ Contrastive Focus (adverbs/objects) [ Contrastive Focus (circumstantial adverbs) [ Information Focus [ FinP (Benincà and Poletto 2004: 71) (23) ForceP [ ShiftP [ ContrP [ FocP [ FamP* [ FinP (Frascarelli and Hinterhölzl 2007: 112–113) Both of the revised…”