ENGLISH

Split Intransitivity in Italian

By Delia Bentley

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2006
ISBN
3110179970, 9783110179972
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15385358 bytes)
Series
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 30
Pages
455\473
Time added
2016-03-27 12:41:55
Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses;ForeigLanguage & Grammar;ReferenceLanguage & Grammar;Reference;Study & Teaching;Word

Description

This book deals with split intransitivity in Italian, providing an in-depth investigation of the selection of the perfective operator, experiencer predicates, si-constructions, agreement, ne-cliticization, past-participle behaviour and word order. The author proposes that the manifestations of split intransitivity in Italian, whilst being variously constrained by well-formedness conditions on the encoding of information structure, primarily derive from the tension between accusative and active alignment. Drawing upon insights provided by Role and Reference Grammar, and relying on crossdialectal comparison and corpus-based evidence, this study makes new empirical and theoretical contributions to the debate on split intransitivity. It will be of interest to researchers in Italian and Romance linguistics, typology and theoretical linguistics.

Similar books