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Italian Clitics: An Empirical Study

Italian Clitics: An Empirical Study

Russi, Cinzia

Hardcover

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm], Book 193

ItalianMiscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110198681
ISBN13: 9783110198683
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: May 20 2008
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 lexicalization of the verb+clitic sequence. This study is essentially descriptive and maximally data-driven. The discussion of grammaticalization and lexicalization is reduced to the essentials and aims primarily at defining how these terms, which have received different and at times divergent interpretations, are employed in the book.

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