Impersonal si constructions

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Impersonal si constructions

Author	: Roberta D'Alessandro
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date	: 01 January 2007
ISBN	: 9783110207514
Pages	: 253
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Impersonal si constructions by Roberta D'Alessandro Book PDF Summary

This book is a research monograph on impersonal si constructions (ISC) in Italian within the Minimalist program framework. The book offers a new point of view on ISCs, providing a new set of crucial data that were previously unknown, and pointing out many characteristics of ISCs that were overlooked before. It results in the introduction of additional means of syntactic analysis at the edge between narrow syntax and pragmatics.

Impersonal si constructions

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Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.

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