Alessia Cassarà, M.A.
My research interests lie at the interface between syntax and information structure. Building on spontaneous speech data (sgscorpus), I investigate how certain pragmatic functions (such as focus) are realized in French and Spanish, comparing specific syntactic constructions and their functional and semantic properties. This work aims at giving better insights on how communication among speaker and hearer is structured and organized.
Selected articles:
Cassarà, Alessia & Mürmann. Sophie. 2018. Role semantic parameters for Differentially Object Marking in Spanish and Italian. Talk presented in Kolloquium DOM in Spanish: diachronic change and synchronic variation. Zürich (submitted).