Licensing and interpretation of inverted subjects in Italian

"This study aims at identifying the structural and interpretive primitives involved in the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian and at translating them into formal terms as suggested in Chomsky (1995) and Reinhart (1995, 1996). The modular account we propose analyses the phenomenon of subject inversion as the result of the interaction of the principles of the computational system with the syntactic properties of the subject and with conditions of derivational economy and interface economy"--Publisher's Web site.