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'Do'-support in a Sicilian variety, an Italian pseudo-cleft, and the packaging of information
2009
A parallel is drawn between a Sicilian structure with do-support strategy, and a type of pseudo-cleft in Italian in which a do-verb occurs. These structures are examined from three different perspectives. First, morpho-syntax: the two clause-types share a number of formal aspects, which include the do-verb, a lexical verb in the infinitive, and the sharing of the same subject by both verbs. The second has to do with their packaging of information: in both cases, higher communicative prominence is given to an event (VP) rather than a participant (NP or PP). The expression of the event is broken down into two separable components, its existence (an event is expressed without being specified, …
The role of lexical aspect in constructing Proto-Indo-European verbal paradigms
2009
The aim of this paper is to recover the role of the [± telic] inherent feature of PIE verbal roots, regardless of the many different meanings which derived verbs could take depending on their combination with arguments, adverbials, and so on. Semantic changes due to different contexts could have indeed obscured the relationship between the original lexical aspect of a verb and the structure of its morphological paradigm. The aspectual class is often described as a compositional property, and verbs are even analyzed as complex structures made up of completely neutral roots without any information about their argument structure. However, the distribution and the kind of forms within the parad…
Intensifiers
2014
The label ‘intensifiers’ (or ‘emphatics’) groups together words, widely attested crosslinguistically (e.g. Eng. x-self, Germ. selbst, Ital. stesso, Lat. ipse, Japanese zisin and zibun, Mandarin zı j ĭetc.), whose main function is to signal some sort of emphasis or focus with respect to a nominal head they are adjoined to in the sentence, as in The author herself will present the book. In addition to the term ‘intensifiers’ (Moravcsik 1972; Edmondson and Plank 1978), there exist many other labels in the relevant literature to define this sub-class of functional words, which reflect the (anything but closed) debate on their actual categorial status. This entry discuss the origin and the funct…
Intensificatori e soggettificazione in latino: sulla grammaticalizzazione di maxime
2022
The aim of this paper is to investigate the grammaticalization path of the intensifying adverb maxime in Early Latin, within the perspective of the so-called ‘subjectification’ theory. Despite the difficulty of drawing discrete boundaries within the multifunctional category of adverbs, the semantic, syntactic and pragmatic analysis of maxime across different contexts of use allows us to identify at least three main functions of this adverb in early Latin texts, mostly in the Roman comedy of Plautus and Terence. In particular, adopting the perspective of the Functional Discourse Grammar, it is shown that maxime is used as (i) degree adverb, which modifies a large range of elements acting at …
LA COMPONENTE LINGUISTICA DEI FENOMENI MIGRATORI IN ITALIA: RILETTURE PEDAGOGICHE E PROPOSTE DI INTERVENTO
2012
LA COMPONENTE LINGUISTICA DEI FENOMENI MIGRATORI IN ITALIA: RILETTURE PEDAGOGICHE E PROPOSTE DI INTERVENTO
Legge Tobler-Mussafia
2010
Voce inserita nell Enciclopedia dell'Italiano Treccani (EncIt): La legge di Tobler - Mussafia codifica una regolarità osservabile in italiano antico (dalle origini agli inizi del XV secolo) e, più in generale, in tutte le varietà medievali romanze, nel comportamento dei clitici (pronomi personali obliqui atoni - mi, ti, gli, le, lo, la, etc. - e particelle avverbiali - ci, vi, ne, etc.) nella loro relazione con il verbo e talvolta con altri elementi della frase. Il fenomeno è indagato attraverso opportune esemplificazioni in una prospettiva volta alla ricerca della sua motivazione.
L'italiano digitale nella letteratura elettronica
2014
Recensione di 'Le frasi scisse in italiano. Struttura informativa e funzioni discorsive'
2012
Compendio di sintassi italiana
2009
Il condominio di Via della Notte. Invito alla narrativa di Maria Attanasio
2015
Maria Attanasio is a skilful poet and novelist, that has been writing since the seventies. She has published six books of poems (one translated into Spanish, and two into English) and seven of prose narrative. Her novels are historical, but in the line of novelized history, and they range from the seventeenth century to the present day. Her latest novel, The Building on Night St., moves to a dystopian future that is already part of our present. The protagonists of her books are all 'nonaligned', outcasts and rebels; they are all women with one exception (The Forger of Caltagirone). All of them take place in Eastern Sicily and the land of Attanasio's birthplace, Caltagirone. The exception is…