The object clitic pronoun in Italian: a functional interpretation

Nocentini, Alberto

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“…I assume that an NP is definite if the referent it introduces is functionally connected with some other discourse item that has been introduced previously. This position accords both with the considerations in Capone (2000) 3 and in Nocentini (2003), 4 who, taking up such considerations, extends them to clitics that are not copies of propositions, but of bare NPs (non-propositional NPs denoting things, rather than facts). Nocentini goes for a similar analysis, saying that both types of objects, when referred to anaphorically through a clitic, express topical information (read: given information).…”

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The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes

Capone¹

2013

Intercultural Pragmatics

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Abstract:In this paper I have used pronominal clitics in Italian in combination with verbs of propositional attitude to shed light on opacity effects due to intrusive pragmatics (at the level of free enrichments/explicatures). Certain problems discussed by Schiffer (2000) disappear completely, when the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of propositional clitics are discussed and such considerations are extended to propositional attitudes in general. In this paper, I add that a propositional clause must be in an appositional relationship (resulting from free enrichment and, thus, not actually present in the syntax) with the that-clause embedded in verbs of propositional attitude. I consider the consequences of this position. One of the most cogent results of this paper is that pronominal clitics generally refer back to full propositions (if they refer to propositions at all) and not to minimal propositions. I take my own considerations on clitics to give support to interesting and important considerations on emergent presuppositions by Kecskes and Zhang (2009).

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The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes

Capone¹

2013

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“…Nardi 2018; Baldanzi, Zipoli 2020). L'investimento finanziario fu imponente e poté giovarsi dell'autorizzazione concessa da Sisto IV a Lorenzo di tassare il clero del dominio per 6.000 fiorini annui 31 , mentre la dotazione ordinaria del comune rimase quella di circa 1.500 fiorini annui 32 . Tutti gli studenti appartenenti al dominio fiorentino vennero obbligati a iscriversi al nuovo Studio senza poter espatriare (cfr.…”

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“…La commissione parlamentare aveva modificato il progetto ministeriale, ammettendo nei consigli di amministrazione delle università i rappresentanti degli enti locali, ma mantenendo il primato della componente accademica; il solo Odoardo Luchini -coerente sostenitore dello 'stile' fiorentino -aveva difeso senza successo la linea di una completa separazione fra organi amministrativi e professori, vigente appunto all'Istituto 30 . E tuttavia, essendo la convenzione per Firenze garantita dalla legge del 1872, «nulla è innovato» rispetto all'Istituto 31 . Ancora nel 1895, in una delle riprese del disegno autonomistico, il governo degli Atenei era costruito in modo disforme rispetto a quanto era stato disposto per l'Istituto; e venivano formulate riserve precise sulla legge del 1872, che non richiedeva esplicitamente né l'approvazione governativa dei bilanci, né la formale presentazione dei bilanci stessi al parlamento 32 .…”

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“…Si era dimesso per la «vergognosa gazzarra degli studenti fascisti dimentichi di quanto Egli aveva fatto per l'università di Firenze», asserì vent'anni dopo Giuseppe Levi, uno dei suoi allievi migliori, maestro di vincitori di Nobel 31 . Una spiegazione molto parziale, eppure ripetuta anche di recente 32 ; essa sottovaluta gli attacchi orchestrati da certi professori, e la crescente solitudine in cui il primo rettore si ritrovò, con le proprie debolezze ed errori, isolato anche rispetto al fronte avverso al regime.…”

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Firenze e l’Università

2024

Dialoghi Con La Società

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This book presents a history of the Florence University’s 100 years, tracing its extensive evolution in higher education within the city, from its medieval and early-modern origins to its progressive institutionalization during the period when Florence served as the Italian capital, then culminating in the formal birth of the University on October 1, 1924. During the two decades of Fascism, it experiences significant development but heavily suffers from the intrusion of the regime. As a protagonist in the shaping of the Republic alongside its prominent professors, the University will establish a dense network of relations with the community, thereby contributing to its economic and social growth. Running parallel to the profound changes in the nation, this interplay – closely reconstructed in the book – will promote the gradual shift from an elitist educational model to that of a mass higher education.

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“…In Italian, this is especially visible in the periphrastic past (passato prossimo, trapassato prossimo) and in the periphrastic future (futuro anteriore), where the past participle may be inflected for gender and number. As illustrated in Nocentini (2003), a clause with left-dislocation such as I giornali li ho letti 'The newspapers, I read them' exhibits verbal agreement with the dislocated object and with the clitic. The same occurs in a clause with right dislocation such as Li ho letti i 4 While head marking in the clause is common with both human and non-human referents, to the extent that they are definite in their context, in the noun phrase head marking is used with human possessors, especially when involved in kinship relations.…”

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Pragmatic implications of head and dependent marking

Viti

2009

Folia Linguistica

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Head marking and dependent marking are considered to be major parameters of syntactic diversity, and are traditionally related to the geographical distribution of languages. Some areas such as Standard Average European favor dependent marking, while head marking is preferred in the New World. However, head and dependent marking may also occur in the same language, either in different domains of grammar or -more interestingly -in competing constructions that are used to convey the same propositional content. In Italian, for example, the choice of head or dependent marking is strongly conditioned by pragmatic factors. Head marking mainly expresses topical information, while the focus is usually conveyed by dependent marking. Moreover, head marking is preferably used in the spoken informal language, while dependent marking prevails in the written formal register. This indicates that structurally different language types may be similar in the organization of pragmatic information.

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The object clitic pronoun in Italian: a functional interpretation

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The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes

The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes

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Pragmatic implications of head and dependent marking

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