The purpose of this work is to extend our knowledge of the syntax of English, German and Russian and additionally to explore the possibilities of using contrastive analysis as a tool for linguistic investigation. This work deals with "reflexive verbs in order to 1) clarify some …
Main description: This book deals with split intransitivity in Italian, providing an in-depth investigation of the selection of the perfective operator, experiencer predicates, si-constructions, agreement, ne-cliticization, past-participle behaviour and word order. The author pr…
Split intransitivity has received a great deal of attention in theoretical linguistics since the formulation of the Unaccusative Hypothesis by David Perlmutter (1978). This book provides an in-depth investigation of split intransitivity as it occurs in Italian. The principal pro…