Italian clitics: an empirical study

This book provides a comprehensive, primarily descriptive, investigation of important trends in the evolution of Italian object pronouns. It offers the first in-depth characterization of the most frequent verbi procomplementari, whose distinctive property is the complete incorporation of pronouns as...

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1. Verfasser: Russi, Cinzia 1966- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berlin, New York Mouton de Gruyter [2008]
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Schriftenreihe:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 193
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Zusammenfassung:This book provides a comprehensive, primarily descriptive, investigation of important trends in the evolution of Italian object pronouns. It offers the first in-depth characterization of the most frequent verbi procomplementari, whose distinctive property is the complete incorporation of pronouns as grammatically and semantically obligatory elements
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 300 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9783110206975
DOI:10.1515/9783110206975

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