%0 Book %A Carmela Sammarco %D 2024 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %@ 9783631919897 %T Verbless Sentences in Spoken Italian %B A Non-Canonical Encoding of Grammatical Relations %R 10.3726/b21889 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1448828 %X The book deals with the analysis of the expression of Grammatical Relations in spoken Italian verbless sentences. Unlike previous studies, this corpus-driven research aims at showing that it is possible to identify Grammatical-Relations in verbless sentences and that their encoding marks are non-canonical, as it occurs in verbal sentences which present non-prototypical arguments. Moreover, it demonstrates that the spoken language is a privileged field of observation for the analysis of systemic grammatical phenomena which are not always evident in written language. %K Verbless sentences, Identification and definition of Grammatical Relations, Coding marks and behavioral properties., Prototypical approach %G English