In:Silent Instruments: Syntax, semantics, and acquisition of the instrumental role in Italian
Alice Suozzi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 293] 2026
► pp. 4–28
Chapter 1Instruments
Semantic characterization and syntactic realization in Italian
Published online: 26 March 2026
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.293.c1
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.293.c1
Article outline
- 1.1Defining Instruments: Semantics
- 1.1.1Instrumentality
- 1.1.2Instrumental subroles
- 1.2Defining Instruments: Syntactic realization
- 1.2.1The clitic pronoun “ci”
- 1.3Between semantics and syntax
- 1.3.1Semantic classes that can enter instrumental syntactic structures
- 1.3.2Syntactic optionality of Instruments and its implications
- 1.4Summary of the chapter
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