Theory-driven approaches and empirical advances

Abstract

Italo-Romance varieties present at least three types of constructions that cluster together two verbs displaying double tense and double subject agreement and are taken as Pseudo-Coordinations (PseCos) or Multiple Agreement Constructions (MACs). In this paper, we follow Cardinaletti and Giusti’s (1998, 2001, 2003, 2020) hypotheses and claim that unification between the PseCos with a and the MACs with mu/mi/ma or ku in Southern Italian dialects is not viable. We adopt a diagnostic tool, which we call a protocol, that clusters the predictions of theory-driven analyses and apply it to the ‘take and’ construction, which is widespread across dialects and productive in Italian. In doing so, we discuss unobserved facts arising in the well-studied dialectal structures and make fine-grained observations about the less studied ‘take and’ PseCo in Italian.

Functional TAKE as Inchoative and Mirative Marker in Bulgarian Multiple Agreement Constructions

“…(3) a. Wiklund (2007: 193)] TAKE PseCo in the Romance varieties has been analyzed since the work by Wagner (1955) and Coseriu (1966;1967), (Note 3) and has attracted renewed attention that led to Masini et al (2019), Giusti & Cardinaletti (2022) (who focused on Italian and some Southern Italo-Romance varieties), Soto Gómez (2021) (Spanish), Mendes & Ruda (2022) Portuguese, and Bleotu (2022) (Romanian). As shown in (3) and (4) for Germanic, also in Romance PseCo, TAKE can either serve as an inchoative (cf.…”

“…Coseriu (1966: 21) From the examples in ( 22) it is clear that the verb TAKE in the iPseCo is devoid of lexical meaning (as is the case of PseCos cross-linguistically, e.g., in Italian; cf. Giusti & Cardinaletti 2022). The iPseCo appears to be either mirative (e.g., (22a)) or exhortative (e.g., (22c)), although it may also have other readings.…”

“…We had already pointed out that TAKE ĉeMAC and TAKE iPseCo behave in line with TAKE daMAC in having a unique subject, but they differ from it in that their V1 and V2 obligatorily share TAM features. Such constructions have been assigned a monoclausal structure (see Giusti & Cardinaletti 2022 for Italo-Romance). We agree with such analyzes and assume that TAKE ĉeMAC and TAKE iPseCo are also monoclausal.…”