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Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave

Gramatica ragionata della lingua italiana, 1771

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

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages 1
  4. Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
  5. Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms 19
  6. First person strong pronouns in spoken French 33
  7. Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian 49
  8. On the grammar of kinship 69
  9. Part II. Deixis and impersonality
  10. Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns 87
  11. The Spanish impersonal se -construction 109
  12. Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns 125
  13. Clitic subjects in French text messages 147
  14. The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse 171
  15. Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies 189
  16. Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
  17. The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause 207
  18. The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach 227
  19. Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
  20. Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy 253
  21. Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave 273
  22. Name index 285
  23. Subject index 287
Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages
This chapter is in the book Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.136.15jen

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction to deixis and pronouns in Romance languages 1
  4. Part I. Deixis and grammatical paradigms
  5. Deixis and person in the development of Greek personal pronominal paradigms 19
  6. First person strong pronouns in spoken French 33
  7. Preservation, modification, and innovation. Paradigmatic reorganisation of the system of personal pronouns – from Latin into Modern Italian 49
  8. On the grammar of kinship 69
  9. Part II. Deixis and impersonality
  10. Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns 87
  11. The Spanish impersonal se -construction 109
  12. Diaphasic variation and change in French pronouns 125
  13. Clitic subjects in French text messages 147
  14. The use of personal deixis as an ideological instrument in Spanish political discourse 171
  15. Cognitive collages and other mental representations of address forms and strategies 189
  16. Part IV. Deixis and the verbal system
  17. The relevance of deixis in the description of the predicative relative clause 207
  18. The marking of person deixis in the French future system – a diachronic approach 227
  19. Part V. Deixis in a metalinguistic perspective
  20. Place deixis in the 16th century grammars of Italy 253
  21. Deixis and reference in the treatment of personal pronouns and demonstratives in Francesco Soave 273
  22. Name index 285
  23. Subject index 287
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