The substance and value of Italian si /

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This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender, or...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Joseph, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 74.
Temas:
Si (The Italian word)
Italian language > Etymology.
Italien (Langue) > Étymologie.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Italian.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • The Substance and Value of Italian Si
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. What is si?
  • A.A disconnect between category and use
  • B. The traditional distinction transitive/intransitive, and an alternative view
  • a. The traditional distinction transitive/intransitive
  • b. An alternative view: Introduction to Columbia School
  • c. The rendering of Italian si + verb into English intransitives
  • C. Si and the traditional category impersonal
  • D. Si and the traditional category passive
  • E. Si and the traditional category reflexive
  • F. Conclusion
  • Chapter 2. Opting out of sex and number: Si vs. other impersonals
  • A. The traditional category impersonal
  • B.A multiplicity of forms used impersonally
  • C. Si vs. uno used impersonally
  • D. Si vs. other pronouns used impersonally
  • E. Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. The system of Focus on Participants
  • A. The failure of the traditional category subject and the need for a new hypothesis
  • B. New categories: Focus and Degree of Control
  • C. The three degrees of Focus in Italian
  • D. The status of si- in the System of Focus on Participants
  • E. Another view of the System of Focus on Participants
  • Chapter 4. The system of Degree of Control
  • A. The three Degrees of Control
  • B. The status of si and Degree of Control
  • C. Order of clitics and Degree of Control
  • Appendix to Chapter 4. The interlock of the systems of Participant Focus and Degree of Control
  • Chapter 5. Scale of Degree of Control: The view from the bottom
  • A. Subversion of the Focus-Control interlock: Si for Focus on low-controllers
  • B. That passive and impersonal are not categories of Italian grammar
  • C. That intransitive is not a category of Italian grammar.
  • D. Absence of si with Focus on mid-controllers (no passivization of datives)
  • E. Si vs. the participle
  • Chapter 6. Scale of Degree of Control: The view from the top
  • A. The traditional reflexive
  • B. Pronouns other than si that can be reflexive
  • a. Si vs. sé
  • b. Si vs. lui/lei
  • c. Why si is the only reflexive among the third-person clitics
  • C. Subversion of the Focus-Control interlock: Passive people
  • D. Neutralization of Degree of Control: People under the influence
  • E. Neutralization of Degree of Control: Self-regulated and self-interested people
  • a. Neutralization of high and low control
  • b. Neutralization of high and mid control
  • F. Si interpreted reciprocally
  • Chapter 7. Grammatical constancy and lexical idiosyncrasy
  • A. Aprire 'open'
  • B. Alzare 'raise'
  • C. Voltare 'turn'
  • D. Cambiare 'change'
  • E. Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. Grammar constrained by lexicon: The "inherently reflexive" verbs
  • A. The ostensible problem
  • B. Data coverage
  • C. Morphology
  • a. Infinitives
  • b. Gerunds
  • c. Participles
  • d. Inherently reflexive verbs with non-reflexive clitics
  • D. Semantics: Opting out of distinctions of Degree of Control
  • Chapter 9. Number and gender with si used impersonally
  • A. An apparent problem
  • B. Verb number in general
  • C. Verb number with impersonal si-w
  • D. Number of predicate nominative with impersonal si
  • E. Gender of predicate nominative with impersonal si
  • F. Further on Number and Gender with si used impersonally
  • G. Remarks on Number and Gender of participles with impersonal si
  • Chapter 10. Other related matters
  • A. Auxiliaries avere and essere in compound tenses
  • B. Ci si: The "impersonal reflexive"
  • C.A morphemic re-analysis of si and se
  • D. Some properties of outer-Focus (e)ne
  • a. Lack of co-occurrence of (e)ne and (e)l+.
  • B. Purported association of (e)ne with direct object
  • c. Adverbial (e)ne
  • Chapter 11. Background and theory
  • A. Background
  • a. Diver on Latin (1969-1995)
  • b. García on Spanish (1975)
  • c. García (1983)
  • d. García (2009)
  • e. Gorup on Serbo-Croatian (2006)
  • f. Stern on English (2001-2006)
  • g. Other treatments
  • B. Theory
  • a. Previous theoretical statements
  • b. Theoretical contributions of the present work
  • Sources of data and translation, with abbreviations
  • References
  • Index of names
  • Subject index.

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