Italian syntax : A government-binding approach. By Luigi Burzio. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986. Pp. xiii, 468. f 185.00.

This is as comprehensive a study of Italian syntax as I've seen in modern linguistics: it deals with verb classes, cliticization, impersonal si sentences, causatives, restructuring sentences (i.e. those which allow the phenomenon commonly known as ‘Clitic Climbing‘), perception verb complements, and the analysis of reflexive clitics, all in great detail. It also deals with innumerable other matters, sometimes rapidly, but always intelligently—including impersonal passives, there sentences, criticisms of VP analyses which allow a variety of projections of V, reconstruction in LF, theta role assignment, and Case assignment. The data, despite the title, are drawn from English as well as Italian, with interesting sections on Piemontese and French.