Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave
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Viggo Bank Jensen
Abstract
With an analytical framework based upon Émile Benveniste’s theory on deixis and pronouns and Laura Vanelli’s theory on determiners, I discuss how Francesco Soave (1743–1806) in his grammar Gramatica ragionata della lingua italiana (1771) deals with personal pronouns and demonstratives. As regards personal pronouns, I conclude that Soave, in a short form, basically expresses the same view as Benveniste. As regards the demonstratives I conclude that Soave’s analysis, though presenting the formal system in a classical way, combines original intralinguistic and extralinguistic explanations about the use: he includes an explicitation of deictic elements, and by connecting the use of articles and demonstratives in a reasoning of how reference is determined his deictic analysis of the demonstratives is placed in a framework with modern traits.
Abstract
With an analytical framework based upon Émile Benveniste’s theory on deixis and pronouns and Laura Vanelli’s theory on determiners, I discuss how Francesco Soave (1743–1806) in his grammar Gramatica ragionata della lingua italiana (1771) deals with personal pronouns and demonstratives. As regards personal pronouns, I conclude that Soave, in a short form, basically expresses the same view as Benveniste. As regards the demonstratives I conclude that Soave’s analysis, though presenting the formal system in a classical way, combines original intralinguistic and extralinguistic explanations about the use: he includes an explicitation of deictic elements, and by connecting the use of articles and demonstratives in a reasoning of how reference is determined his deictic analysis of the demonstratives is placed in a framework with modern traits.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages 1
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Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
- Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms 19
- First person strong pronouns in spoken French 33
- Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian 49
- On the grammar of kinship 69
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Part II. Deixis and impersonality
- Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns 87
- The Spanish impersonal se -construction 109
- Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns 125
- Clitic subjects in French text messages 147
- The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse 171
- Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies 189
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Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
- The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause 207
- The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach 227
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Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
- Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy 253
- Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave 273
- Name index 285
- Subject index 287
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages 1
-
Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
- Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms 19
- First person strong pronouns in spoken French 33
- Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian 49
- On the grammar of kinship 69
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Part II. Deixis and impersonality
- Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns 87
- The Spanish impersonal se -construction 109
- Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns 125
- Clitic subjects in French text messages 147
- The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse 171
- Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies 189
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Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
- The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause 207
- The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach 227
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Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
- Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy 253
- Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave 273
- Name index 285
- Subject index 287
