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Progressive and predicative constructions with gerund in Romance. A contrastive analysis

2018

Progressive and predicative constructions formed with gerund are present in numerous Romance languages. In the literature, these two types of construction have often been considered as syntactically analogous. Through the application of syntactic tests, this study will show that, despite a number of similarities, progressive and predicative constructs with gerund are characterized by a different structure.

Settore L-FIL-LET/12 - Linguistica ItalianaSettore L-FIL-LET/09 - Filologia E Linguistica Romanzanon-finite verb formssmall clausesgerunds periphrastic forms secondary predicates small clauses infinitive non-finite verb forms monoclausal constructions biclausal constructionsSettore L-LIN/06 - Lingua E Letterature Ispano-Americanegerundsperiphrastic formssecondary predicatesinfinitivemonoclausal constructionsbiclausal constructionsSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Expressing perception in parallel ways. Sentential Small Clauses in German and Romance

2021

This chapter compares Pseudo-relatives (‘PRs’), a construction found in most Romance languages, with ‘Subject-wieclauses’ (‘SWs’), a German construction in which the subject of an embedded wie-clause precedes the complementizer wie (‘how’; e.g. Ich sah Maria, wie sie sang, lit. “I saw Mary, how she sung”, i.e. ‘I saw Mary singing’). We show that both constructions mainly occur with perception verbs, and that they have a very similar syntactic behaviour; e.g., they can be coordinated with adjectival or prepositional small clauses and have anaphoric tense. Furthermore, they both have a clausal nature but can modify a DP. We thus propose to extend Casalicchio’s (2016) analysis of PRs to SWs: t…

complementizer Small Clause verbs of perception Italian Romance German Left periphery ForceP secondary predicateSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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