Publication details
Preposizioni e defocalizzazione dell’agente in italoromanzo
| Title in English | Prepositions and agent defocusing in Italo-Romance |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Actes del 26é Congrés de Lingüística i Filologia Romaniques (Valencia, 6-11 de setembre de 2010), Vol. 3 |
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| Keywords | Prepositions; Italo-Romance; Grammaticalisation; Cognitive grammar |
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| Description | The results of a preliminary investigation into the expression of the agent in the passive constructions of ancient Italian-Romance vernaculars are proposed. In particular, I address two aspects of the phenomenon that have not received adequate attention in the literature: the semantics of prepositions marking the defocalised participant (prototypically an agent) and the functional distribution of such prepositions, which seems to be semantically determined. |