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Italian Syntax

A Government-Binding Approach

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Luigi Burzio

    1. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 1)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Verb Classes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-19
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    2. Intransitive Verbs and Auxiliaries

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      Pages 20-84

    3. The Syntax of Inversion

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      Pages 85-177

    4. On Reconstruction and Other Matters

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      Pages 178-214

  3. Complex Predicates

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-227
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    2. Causative Constructions

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      Pages 228-321

    3. Restructuring Constructions

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      Pages 322-394

    4. Reflexives

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      Pages 395-435

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 436-468
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About this book

In the course of our everyday lives, we generally take our knowledge of language for granted. Occasionally, we may become aware of its great practical importance, but we rarely pay any attention to the formal properties that language has. Yet these properties are remarkably complex. So complex that the question immediately arises as to how we could know so much. The facts that will be considered in this book should serve well to illustrate this point. We will see for example that verbs like arrivare 'arrive' and others like telefonare 'telephone', which are superficially similar, actually differ in a large number of respects, some fairly well known, others not. Why should there be such differencces. we may ask. And why should it be that if a verb behaves like arrivare and unlike tetefonare in one respect. it will do so in all others consistently, and how could everyone know it? To take another case, Italian has two series of pronouns: stressed and unstressed. Thus, for example, alongside of reflexive se stesso 'himself which is the stressed form. one finds si which is unstressed but otherwise synonymous. Yet we will see that the differences between the two could not simply be stress versus lack of stress, as their behavior is radically different under a variety of syntactic conditions.

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`Luigi Burzio's study is a truly outstanding contribution to the study of language. Carefully reasoned, original in conception, and remarkably comprehensive in scope, his work is sure to prove to be a landmark in the field and a source of great inspiration and insight for years to come.'
Noam Chomsky, MIT

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, USA

    Luigi Burzio

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Italian Syntax

  • Book Subtitle: A Government-Binding Approach

  • Authors: Luigi Burzio

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4522-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2014-6Published: 28 February 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2015-3Published: 28 February 1986

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4522-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 470

  • Topics: Syntax, Romance Languages

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