Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation Page 1 Pleonasm and hypercharacterisation CHRISTIAN
LEHMANN ∗ 1. INTRODUCTION Hypercharacterization1 (German Ubercharakterisierung) may …

This paper illustrates the relevance of the Unaccusative Hypothesis for a well‐known area of
Late Latin/early Romance syntax, the proliferation of pleonastic reflexives with intransitive …

Three parameters play a role in the spread of the accusative into the functional domains of
the nominative for non-object, core arguments: semantic (the inactive nature of the …

Τhis book offers a new approach to the theory of change in argument structure and voice
morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity, and especially the changes in …

This article investigates the morphosyntax of verbs of internally caused scalar change and
the main facets of their meaning. Availing ourselves of primary evidence from Italian, French …

Recent synchronic, diachronic and variational studies on different manifestations of split
intransitivity, namely auxiliary selection (Aranovich 2003; Cennamo 1998, 2001, 2002; …

Romance displays substantial synchronic variation in the expression of the perfect: the
distribution of analytic vs. synthetic forms is not the same in all Romance varieties, and …

Cos' è il 'Medio'? Lo scopo di questa tesi è indagare l'origine e la storia della categoria
verbale del Medio Indoeuropeo, osservando le differenti definizioni del termine 'medio'ei …

The Romance languages have evolved from a common source, Latin, a variety of the Italic
branch of Indo-European, originally spoken in a west-central area of Italy, Latium (Lazio) …

The study of grammatical patterns which are restricted to specific semantic classes of verbs
provides strong evidence for the status of the lexicon as an independent, and analysable …