Split intransitivity in Italian /
Split intransitivity has received a great deal of attention in theoretical linguistics since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis by David Perlmutter (1978). This book provides an in-depth investigation of split intransitivity as it occurs in Italian. The principal proposal is that the man...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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Colección: | Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Split intransitivity: An introduction
- 1.2 Split intransitivity in Italian
- 1.3 The diagnostics
- 1.4 Role and Reference Grammar
- 2. Perfective operators
- 2.1 The problem
- 2.2 The markedness of the Privileged Syntactic Argument
- 2.3 Avere or essere?
- 2.4 Crossdialectal and crosslinguistic variation
- 2.5 Complex predicates
- 2.6 Conclusion
- 3. Experiencer predicates
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Type-(i) experiencer predicates
- 3.3 Type-(ii) experiencer predicates
- 3.4 Type-(iii) experiencer predicates3.5 Conclusion
- 4. Si-constructions and unexpressed arguments
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Reflexives
- 4.3 Impersonal si-constructions
- 4.4 Unexpressed arguments
- 4.5 Conclusion
- 5. Agreement
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The agreement of perfective and passive past participles
- 5.3 Variability and change in perfective past-participle agreement
- 5.4 Non-finite agreement in complex predicates
- 5.5 Non-finite agreement in absolute participles
- 5.6 Non-finite agreement in constructions with adjectival and nominal predicates5.7 Finite agreement: Crossdialectal evidence
- 5.8 Agreement in crossdialectal perspective
- 5.9 Conclusion
- 6. Ne-cliticization
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Canonical ne-cliticization
- 6.3 Some putative exceptions
- 6.4 Constructions with non-verbal predicates
- 6.5 Ne-cliticization in si-constructions
- 6.6 Other functions of ne
- 6.7 Conclusion
- 7. Past participles
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Attributive past participles: Restrictive and descriptive constructions
- 7.3 Predicative past participles: Passive and resultative constructions7.4 Passive and resultative venire �come� and andare �go�
- 7.5 Predicative past participles: Absolute constructions
- 7.6 Compounds with ben(e) or mal(e) plus a participle
- 7.7 Conclusion
- 8. Word order
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Word order and split intransitivity
- 8.3 The interaction of syntax with discourse
- 8.4 Intransitive constructions with a postnuclear PSA
- 8.5 Conclusion
- 9. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index