The main topic of this dissertation is a comparison among sentential predicative
constructions in the Romance languages. Whereas Pseudo-relative clauses are almost …

Most Romance languages permit the overt realization of the grammatical subject in infinitive
clauses in a considerable number of configurations. Mensching has the following goals: to …

In this paper we would like to analyze the syntax of Italian free relative clauses with a [+
animate] antecedent. Starting from a brief discussion of the model we will adopt (§ 2.1), we …

This chapter surveys the range of infinitival clause types that exists in Romance languages,
both in embedded and non-embedded contexts. It then discusses the status of left peripheral …

This dissertation investigates the concept of finiteness across Romance, a theoretical notion
very frequently used within linguistics although still poorly understood (Ledgeway 2007 …

The syntax of participial clauses has been an important issue in syntactic theory, especially
since Perlmutter (1978) put forth the Unaccusative Hypothesis. This is the object of a lively …

The Latin reflexive pronoun SE has undergone extensive semantic and grammatical
reinterpretation in some of the Romance languages, notably in Italian, but far less in French …

The development of a future tense from a construction with the verb 'to go'constitutes a
common path of grammaticalization (cf. Bybee et al. 1994). This is in fact what we find both …

In diverse grammatiche storiche delle lingue romanze si è spesso sostenuto che le
manifestazioni del Genere Neutro nella morfologia nominale1 siano andate in gran parte …

L'italiano mostra un'ampia e complessa gamma di possibilità di costruzione di frasi relative,
che si realizzano diversamente nelle sue varietà. Dopo una breve panoramica sulle …