Acknowledgements |
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Table of contents |
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Chapter 1. Introduction |
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1.1. Structure of the present work |
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1.1.1. Agreement patterns and interpretation of ISCs |
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2.1. The clitic nature of impersonal si |
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3. Theoretical Assumptions |
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3.1. Uninterpretable features |
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3.2. Phases and derivations |
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4. Syntactic and semantic agreement |
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4.1. Syntactic agreement and the identification of syntactic features |
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4.2. The syntactic features of impersonal si |
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4.2.1. The syntactic number feature of si |
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4.2.2. The syntactic person feature of si |
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4.2.3. The gender feature of si |
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Chapter 2. Agreement patterns of transitive ISCs |
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1.1. A terminological issue |
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1.2.2. Idiolectal variation |
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1.3. Case and agreement in transitive ISCs |
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1.3.1. ISCs with transitive verbs in the past tense |
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1.4. Previous analyses: an overview |
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1.4.1. Optionalily in θ-role absorption |
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1.4.2. The argumental status of si |
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2.1. Vendler's aspectual classes |
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2.2. Dowty's tests and ISCs |
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2.2.1. Dowty's tests for accomplishments and activities |
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2.3. Presence vs absence of a definite article |
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2.4. Crosslinguistic evidence: Spanish and Rumanian ISCs |
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3. Translating Aktionsart into syntax: inner aspect |
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3.1.1. Transitive accomplishments and transitive activities |
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3.2. Impersonal and aspectual si in the specifier of E: ci si |
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3.3. Si in the specifier of resP |
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3.4. Si in the specifier of v |
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3.5. What about achievements? |
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Chapter 3. The person restriction in transitive ISCs |
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2. The person restriction on Nomintive objects: where and when |
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2.1. Italian ISCs and the person restriction |
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2.2. Person restriction in Icelandic quirky subject constructions |
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2.3. Italian and Spanish psych verbs |
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3. Specialized v or Structural Constraint? |
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4. The person restriction on ISCs: a multiple-Agree analysis |
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4.1. Complex dependencies |
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4.2. Is dative necessary? |
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4.3. Impersonal si is not a quirky dative |
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4.3.1. Si is not an indirect object |
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4.4. Multiple Agree and the person restriction in Italian ISCs |
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4.4.1 The cliticization of si on T |
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5. Icelandic quirky dative constructions |
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5.1. Person restriction with Accusative subjects |
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6. No restriction: Italian psych and ISCs without V-0 agreement |
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6.1. ISCs with no V-0 agreement |
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6.3. Spanish psych verbs of the olvidarse class |
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Chapter 4. The inclusive interpretation of impersonal si |
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2. Interpretational variation for impersonal si constructions |
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2.1. Si as an indefinite subject |
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2.2. Inclusiveness and existentiality of impersonal si |
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3. Specific time reference, aspectual specification and inclusiveness |
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3.1. Tests for inclusiveness |
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3.2. Inclusive reading with transitive and unergative verbs |
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3.2.1.Interpretational variation of ISCs with transitive and unergative verbs |
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3.2.2. Is si always inclusive? |
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3.2.3. Vagueness or double interpretation? |
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4. Aspect and boundedness |
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4.1. Eventuality, boundedness and telicity |
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4.2. Boundedness and the inclusive reading |
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4.2.1. Inclusive si with present tenses: an exception? |
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5. Generic vs. inclusive reading in ISCs |
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5.1.1. The valuation of arb and semantic agreement |
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5.3. Boundedness and the speech act |
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5.3.2. Split antecedent binding |
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5.3.3. Disjunctive features |
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5.4. The exclusive-inclusive interpretation of si |
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5.5. The existential reading of si |
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5.6. When boundedness does not count: 'Exclusively inclusive' si in Tuscan and Finnish |
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Chapter 5. Past participle agreement in impersonal si constructions |
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1. Past participle agreement in ISCs |
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1.1. Past participle agreement in Italian |
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1.2. Past participle agreement in Italian and defective phases |
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1.3. Pp agreement in ISCs with V-0 agreement |
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1.4. Pp agreement in ISCs with no V-0 agreement |
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2. The unaccusative-unergative puzzle |
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2.1. Impersonal si with unergatives |
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2.2. ISCs with unaccusative verbs |
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2.2.2. Disjunctive gender? |
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3. Other cases of agreement mismatch |
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3.1.1. Predicative ISCs: si e belli |
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3.1.2. Transitive ISCs with object clitics |
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3.1.3. Non canonical agreement patterns: si e mangiati gli spaghetti |
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Chapter 6. Conclusions |
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Notes |
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References |
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Index |
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