Russi Italian Clitics

An Empirical Study
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-020697-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 193, 310 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

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 , 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.

The book is accessible to a wide and varied readership, which includes Italian and Romance linguists of functional and formal orientation, Italian language scholars, grammaticalization scholars interested in new case studies, as well as students of language change and variation.

Zielgruppe

Italian and Romance Linguists, Historical Linguists, Academic Lib

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russi, Cinzia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;7
3;Chapter 1 Introduction;15
4;Chapter 2 Grammaticalization, lexicalization, and language change;35
5;Chapter 3 The Italian clitic system: a brief introduction;61
6;Chapter 4 Grammaticalization of the clitic pronouns;85
7;Chapter 5 Verbs in ne;117
8;Chapter 6 Verbs in ci;153
9;Chapter 7 Verbs in la;187
10;Chapter 8 Clitics or affixes?;221
11;Chapter 9 Conclusion;261
12;Backmatter;265

Über Autor(innen)

Cinzia Russi, University of Texas at Austin, USA.