Italian Syntax and Universal Grammar 1996
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511554261.005
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On si constructions and the theory of arb

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“…The use of a manelement is exceptional in Romance languages; French on is etymologically related to homme 'man', but many other languages use the reflexive for impersonal reference 16 . According to Cinque (1988), the interpretation of Italian si and Spanish se is, however, very similar to the interpretation of French on, in spite of their different origin. This similarity is shown below for French in the asentences, Italian in the b-sentences, and Spanish in the c-sentences.…”
Section: Specific Reference In Episodic Contextsmentioning
confidence: 93%
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“…The use of a manelement is exceptional in Romance languages; French on is etymologically related to homme 'man', but many other languages use the reflexive for impersonal reference 16 . According to Cinque (1988), the interpretation of Italian si and Spanish se is, however, very similar to the interpretation of French on, in spite of their different origin. This similarity is shown below for French in the asentences, Italian in the b-sentences, and Spanish in the c-sentences.…”
Section: Specific Reference In Episodic Contextsmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…I will use the term 'arbitrary' for this second interpretation 14 . The first who related this semantic difference to the syntactic structure of the sentence was Cinque (1988), who focused on Italian si 15 . As many of the constructions in question can have 12 The impersonal constructions as common in Europe are usually claimed to have obligatorily human reference.…”
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“…1 A maioria dos trabalhos dentro da Teoria de Regência e Ligação (MANZINI, 1986;CINQUE, 1988;DOBROVIE-SORIN, 1998;MATEUS et al, 2003;CYRINO, 2007) …”
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“…1 A maioria dos trabalhos dentro da Teoria de Regência e Ligação (MANZINI, 1986;CINQUE, 1988;DOBROVIE-SORIN, 1998;MATEUS et al, 2003;CYRINO, 2007) defendem que essas construções sejam consideradas passivas, e se assemelham às construções inacusativas, em que o argumento interno recebe o Caso Nominativo e ocupa ou está ligado à posição de sujeito. Por outro lado, construções com SE com outros tipos de verbos (transitivos indiretos, inacusativos, inergativos, cópula etc.)…”
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