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L’uso di te come pronome soggetto nell’italiano contemporaneo

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Article language: Italian

Published online: 21 October 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.18014.fio
Abstract
In this paper we return to the question of the use of te, the Italian personal pronoun, as subject instead of complement. According to scientific literature, the diffusion of te in substitution of tu as the subject of the clause is attributed to the spoken variety of language.
We aim at verifying this hypothesis and to further document the use of te as subject using existing corpora of both written and spoken language.
The research considers old and new issues (for example the diffusion of the coordinative phrase io e te instead of io e tu, on which see Blasco Ferrer, E. (1992): Io e te. Studi linguistici italiani, XVIII1, pp. 45–71.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) and intends to represent the phenomenon in quantitative and qualitative terms.
In the conclusions it is stated that the phenomenon, even better represented in the spoken versus the written, seems diachronically stable, and sensitive to diatopic factors. The most significant results of the current research consist in having evaluated the presence of the phenomenon separately in the different constructs in which it occurs, and in having identified other contexts of attestation.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduzione
  • 2.Tu / te nella grammatica italiana
    • 2.1Proprietà morfosintattiche dei pronomi personali
    • 2.2Casi di obbligatorietà dell’espressione dei pronomi personali soggetto
    • 2.3Casi di alternanza tra forme soggetto e forme complemento nella varietà standard
  • 3.Tu / te nella grammatica storica
  • 4.Tu / te nell’italiano contemporaneo
    • 4.1Qualche dato quantitativo
    • 4.2I costrutti
    • 4.3Il costrutto ‘io e te’
    • 4.4Il costrutto predicativo dopo copula
    • 4.5Costrutti esclamativi
    • 4.6Costrutto comparativo di uguaglianza
    • 4.7Te soggetto postverbale
    • 4.8Te con l’imperativo
    • 4.9Te in frasi interrogative
    • 4.10Tu/Te in frasi scisse
    • 4.11Te soggetto preverbale
  • 5.Conclusioni
  • Appunti
  • Riferimenti bibliografici
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