On the Nature of the Impersonal SE: Why Italian is not like Catalan and Spanish

Ordóñez, Francisco

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-57004-0_6

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“…The impersonal use of SE has been broadly analysed in the literature (Oca 1914, Fernández Ramírez 1957, Lozano 1970, Jordan 1973, Suñer 1973, Llorente 1977, Jaeggli 1986, Otero 1986, Balari & Bel 1990, Moreno Cabrera 1990, Masullo 1990, Mendikoetxea 1992, Mendikoetxea & Battye 1990, Raposo & Uriagereka 1996, Sánchez López 2002, Ordóñez & Treviño 2011, 2016, Ordóñez 2021, MacDonald & Melgares 2021, to name just a few). What makes impersonal SE special within the system of SE uses is that impersonal SE is the only instance where SE is related to a nominative position, not a (bona fide) accusative or dative position, as it is the case in the rest of uses (Dobrovie-Sorin 1998).…”

Section: Clause-affecting Se Uses (1): Impersonalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Verbs where the predicate is clasified as a dative experiencer psych predicate (Belletti & Rizzi 1988) also reject impersonal SE (Ordóñez 2021).…”

Section: Se Is Clearmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…SE hurts to Juan Intended: 'Something / everything hurts Juan' These verbs have been argued to have a structure where the nominative agreeing nominal is an internal argument and the subject is the quirky marked dative experiencer. This has led several authors (eg., Belletti 1982, Suñer 2002, Ordóñez 2021, pace Dobrovie Sorin 1998 to argue that impersonal SE must be related to subjects marked with nominative.…”

Section: Se Is Clearmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, a second line of approach to this construction, which we could say is currently predominant, goes back to Belletti (1982) and has Jaeggli (1986), Otero (1986) and, in more recent times, Suñer (2002), Ordóñez & Treviño (2011) or Ordóñez (2021) as the main proponents: the idea is that impersonal SE is attached to the head T / Flex, where it has an impoverishing role -as in many cases of predicate-affecting SE-. Let us schematise the two main approaches, with the two variants of the first approach:…”

Section: Impersonal Se As Pro or As An Impoverisher Of Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…a) The literature does not agree on all judgements, even at the most basic empirical level. Sánchez López (2002: 26) consideres ( 14) grammatical, while Ordóñez (2021) considers such impersonal episodic sentences built over periphrastic passives ungrammatical.…”

Section: Introduction: One Clitic Many Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SE in Spanish

Fábregas

2021

Borealis

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This article provides an overview of Spanish SE, covering the main empirical facts, analyses and theoretical issues that it raises, and exploring the prospects to unify all uses –which are over a dozen in the literature– under one same object that keeps its surface properties invariable. We will show that it is almost inescapable to propose that SE is associated to two types of objects, defective arguments and defective verbal heads; both objects share the property of not introducing referentially independent DPs, which can be argued to be the result of the grammaticalisation of a reflexive element in contemporary Spanish. The chapter proposes that a treatment of SE as a projection introduced high in the clausal structure and acting as an agreement locus can be a fruitful way to unify all uses of SE.

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Section: Clause-affecting Se Uses (1): Impersonalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Verbs where the predicate is clasified as a dative experiencer psych predicate (Belletti & Rizzi 1988) also reject impersonal SE (Ordóñez 2021).…”

Section: Se Is Clearmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Se Is Clearmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Impersonal Se As Pro or As An Impoverisher Of Tmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: One Clitic Many Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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SE in Spanish

Fábregas

2021

Borealis

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On (un)grammatical sequences of ses in Spanish

MacDonald

Vázquez-Lozares

2022

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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We discuss the ungrammaticality of Spanish impersonal se (Impse) in combination with another se in control structures. Our main goal is to critically evaluate Martins & Nunes’s (2017) account of parallel phenomena in European Portuguese, who, adopting a movement theory of control, claim that Impse merges in the external argument of the non-finite embedded verb and moves to the matrix clause. When Impse and the other se are transferred within the same phase, the result is ungrammaticality due to an identity violation. We illustrate that their approach cannot be extended to Spanish. Instead, we put forth MacDonald & Vázquez-Lozares’s (2021) proposal as an alternative, which as we show allows for an extension to ungrammatical contexts in which the identity of se cannot be appealed to.

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Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation

Ormazabal

Romero

2024

Linguistic Inquiry

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Most analyses of non-paradigmatic SE derive their agreement patterns structurally, forcing a passive/impersonal distinction against all evidence. Instead, we uniformly analyze them as regular sentences where the T-agreeing subject is se itself, an argumental clitic pronoun, with [person] but no number ϕ-features, and show that the overt argument, which has object properties, does not genuinely agree in syntax. We reveal a new asymmetry between postverbal and preverbal/null arguments, which conceals two postsyntactic processes with very distinctive properties: morphological clitic Mutation into number agreement, and T’s Number Harmony with a close DP, not ruled by syntax or morphology.

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On the Nature of the Impersonal SE: Why Italian is not like Catalan and Spanish

Cited by 4 publications

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SE in Spanish

SE in Spanish

On (un)grammatical sequences of ses in Spanish

Deconstructing SE-Constructions: Number Agreement and Postsyntactic Variation

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