Punteggiatura e coordinazione sintattica: il caso dei puntini di sospensione e della lineetta singola
Punctuation and syntactic coordination: the case of the ellipsis and the single dash

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the emphatic uses of the ellipsis and of the single dash combined with the conjunction e ‘and’ in modern Italian. We will propose an empirically-based description of the textual effects produced by both punctuation marks in micro-syntactic and macro-syntactic coordination. We will show that they both contribute to the hierarchization of information in the text, albeit in different ways: the ellipsis has an interactive meaning and causes the element that it isolates to be indirectly highlighted, whereas the dash has an informational meaning and acts directly on the information structure of the text.

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