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In:Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 274] 2022
► pp. 35–64

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Chapter 2
Theory-driven approaches and empirical advances

A protocol for Pseudo-Coordinations and Multiple Agreement Constructions in Italo-Romance

ORCiD logo with link | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
ORCiD logo with link | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Published online: 16 March 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/la.274.02giu
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.
Article outline
  • Introduction
    • 1.1The empirical domain
    • 1.2The formal analyses
    • 1.3A protocol for PseCos and MACs in Italo-Romance
  • 2.The functional vs. lexical status of V1
    • 2.1V1 belongs to a restricted class
    • 2.2Absence of argument structure of V1
    • 2.3Coreference of Subj1 and Subj2
    • 2.4Morphological reductions of V1
  • 3.Concord of tenses
    • 3.1Restriction of Mood, Person, and Tenses
    • 3.2Clitic climbing
    • 3.3Negation
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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