: Cinzia Russi
: Italian Clitics An Empirical Study
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110206975
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 177.10
:
: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 310
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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 frequentverbi procomplementari, whose distinctive property is the complete incorporation of pronouns as grammatically and semantically obligatory elements.


Cinzia Russi, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Frontmatter1
Contents7
Chapter 1 Introduction15
Chapter 2 Grammaticalization, lexicalization, and language change35
Chapter 3 The Italian clitic system: a brief introduction61
Chapter 4 Grammaticalization of the clitic pronouns85
Chapter 5 Verbs in ne117
Chapter 6 Verbs in ci153
Chapter 7 Verbs in la187
Chapter 8 Clitics or affixes?221
Chapter 9 Conclusion261
Backmatter265