Clitic Right Dislocation in Italian - A Syntactic and Prosodic investigation

This thesis focuses on the syntactic and prosodic properties of Italian Clitic Right Dislocation (CLRD). In particular, it compares divergent analyses of the derivation of CLRD (Movement vs In-situ analyses, and Sentence internal vs Sentence external analyses vs biclausal) both on syntactic and the prosodic data of Italian. The aim of this thesis is trying to give new insights into the problematic aspects of the derivation of CLRD by testing the most important accounts, with particular attention to Cecchetto (1999), Smaek-Lodovici (2015) and Bocci(2013).