The Substance and Value of Italian Si

This book proposes a unitary meaning for the Italian clitic si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender, or case role. The analysis advances the Columbia School framework, attributing variety of interpretation...

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Main Author Davis, Joseph
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands John Benjamins Publishing Company 2017
John Benjamins
Edition1
SeriesStudies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
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Si (The Italian word)
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Summary:This book proposes a unitary meaning for the Italian clitic si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender, or case role. The analysis advances the Columbia School framework, attributing variety of interpretation largely to language use rather than to grammar.
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