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Italian Clitics : an Empirical Study.

After reviewing, from a grammaticalization perspective, the main stages in the evolution of Italian object clitic pronouns, the book discusses the distinctive morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of Italian clitics. In particular, the book offers an original study of the most common exa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Russi, Cinzia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, v. 193.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:After reviewing, from a grammaticalization perspective, the main stages in the evolution of Italian object clitic pronouns, the book discusses the distinctive morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic features of Italian clitics. In particular, the book offers an original study of the most common examples of so-called verbi procomplementari, verbs which are characterized by the incorporation of clitics that no longer function as pronouns, and which are widely used in present-day Italian. Their emergence involves both grammaticalization of the clitic pronoun into an obligatory element, and lexic.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (316 pages)
ISBN:9783110206975
3110206978