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Titre Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses: on siccome ‘because/since’ from Old to Contemporary Italian
Conférencier Emanuella Sanfelici (University of Padua)
Date mardi 19 mars 2024
Heure 12h15
Salle L208 (Bâtiment Candolle)
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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses:

on siccome ‘because/since’ from Old to Contemporary Italian

Sanfelici Emanuela

University of Padua

 

This talk addresses the relation between adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses, asking to what extent the two structures can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. While various adverbial clauses have been analyzed as relative clauses, e.g. temporal, conditional and comparative clauses (Geis 1970; Larson 1990; Donati 1997; Bhatt/Pantcheva 2006; Haegemann 2006; Arsenijević 2009; Hall/Caponigro 2010; Poletto/Sanfelici 2021, a.o.), the literature has been hesitant to extend the relative clause analysis to causal clauses (Cecchetto/Donati 2012). I will argue that at least some adverbial causal clauses are relative clauses and involve a comparison over situations. Orthogonally, I will show that the degree of integration of an adverbial clause correlates with its internal syntax, i.e. the availability of left peripheral functional material, in agreement with Endo & & Haegeman (2019).  Both claims are empirically supported by the diachronic syntactic development of adverbial clauses introduced by the subordinator siccome ‘because/since’ through the history of Italian.

 


 

 

   
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