On a Class of Italian Frozen Sentences

This article describes the class of Italian frozen sentences that are defined by the relation N0 V (1C di N) = N0 V C1 a N2. These sentences are represented in a matrix table named CAN where each entry has ben analysed on the basis of distributional and transformational properties. This study has taken into account the complex net of relations among frozen sentences, sentences with support verbs, predicative nouns, compound words. The analysis of the class CAN has also shown the regularity of the syntactic behaviour of frozen sentences.