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The fare causative derivation in Italian
Abstract
Much of the literature on Italian causatives is concerned with the syntactic status of the constructions, their derivation from a Deeper Structure, and the lexical status of the causative verb employed. I will review a selection of such claims, pointing out that some of these claims may not in fact be as strongly backed by the available data as implied. I then move on to describe some basic properties of the Italian fare causative, presenting independent linguistic evidence of its use. Some interesting generalizations emerging from this analysis are presented here, with regard to intentional versus non-intentional readings and with how differently marked Causees conveys different meanings. These observations will also be analysed in the light of known typological universals relating to causative structures.
Abstract
Much of the literature on Italian causatives is concerned with the syntactic status of the constructions, their derivation from a Deeper Structure, and the lexical status of the causative verb employed. I will review a selection of such claims, pointing out that some of these claims may not in fact be as strongly backed by the available data as implied. I then move on to describe some basic properties of the Italian fare causative, presenting independent linguistic evidence of its use. Some interesting generalizations emerging from this analysis are presented here, with regard to intentional versus non-intentional readings and with how differently marked Causees conveys different meanings. These observations will also be analysed in the light of known typological universals relating to causative structures.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish 13
- Degrees of causivity in German lassen causitive constructions 53
- Grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Slavic between drift and contact 107
- ‘Give’ and semantic maps 129
- How Europeans GIVE 147
- Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese 177
- The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori 195
- GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic 227
- Giving is receiving 253
- Enabling and allowing in Hebrew 271
- Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English 295
- The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian 327
- Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian 353
- Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara 385
- The fare causative derivation in Italian 425
- Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian 463
- Index 491
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Encoding transfer, let/allow and permission in Modern Irish 13
- Degrees of causivity in German lassen causitive constructions 53
- Grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Slavic between drift and contact 107
- ‘Give’ and semantic maps 129
- How Europeans GIVE 147
- Ditransitive constructions in Gan Chinese 177
- The argument realisation of give and take verbs in Māori 195
- GIVE an its arguments in Bohairic Coptic 227
- Giving is receiving 253
- Enabling and allowing in Hebrew 271
- Low-level patterning of pronominal subjects and verb tenses in English 295
- The morphological, syntactic and semantic interface of the verb GIVE in Lithuanian 327
- Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian 353
- Causation in the Australian dialects Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara 385
- The fare causative derivation in Italian 425
- Information-structural encoding of recipient in non-canonical alignments of Persian 463
- Index 491
