Agreement in italian impersonal si constructions: a derivational analysis

Roberta D’'ALESSANDRO

Resumo

Construções impessoais com si  em italiano têm sido o foco de inúmeros estudos. Muitas análises, como as de Cinque (1988), Chierchia (1995) e Dobrovie-Sorin (1996, 1998, 1999), foram propostas para definir os intrigantes padrões de concordância das construções com si . Neste trabalho, mostro que todos os diversos padrões de concordância derivam da dupla natureza do si  como um núcleo e como um DP (Chomsky 1995:249). Minha análise não postula propriedades especiais para o si  que o tornariam peculiar com relação a outros clíticos. Pode-se considerar que o si  age apenas ao nível sintático e não, como em outras propostas, no léxico.

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