The Substance and Value of Italian Si

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This book offers an original treatment of the Italian clitic si. Sharply separating encoded grammar from inference in discourse, it proposes a unitary meaning for si, including impersonals, passives, and reflexives. Si signals third-person participancy but makes no distinctions of number, gender, or case role. The analysis advances the Columbia School framework by relying on just these straightforward oppositions, attributing variety of interpretation largely to language use rather than to grammar. The analysis places si within a network of oppositions involving all the other clitics. Data come primarily from twentieth-century and more recent published and on-line literature. The book will be of interest to functional linguists, students of reflexivity, and scholars of the Italian language.
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 74]  2017.  xiii, 257 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.74
Table of Contents
Foreword
x–xii
Acknowledgements
xiii
Chapter 1. What is si?
1–21
Chapter 2. Opting out of sex and number: Si vs. other impersonals
23–37
Chapter 3. The system of Focus on Participants
39–59
Chapter 4. The system of Degree of Control
61–87
Chapter 5. Scale of Degree of Control: The view from the bottom
89–109
Chapter 6. Scale of Degree of Control: The view from the top
111–137
Chapter 7. Grammatical constancy and lexical idiosyncrasy
139–163
Chapter 8. Grammar constrained by lexicon: The “inherently reflexive” verbs
165–177
Chapter 9. Number and gender with si used impersonally
179–199
Chapter 10. Other related matters
201–219
Chapter 11. Background and theory
221–242
Sources of data and translation, with abbreviations
243
References
245–250
Index of names
251–252
Subject index
253–257
“This book provides an original and innovative analysis of the entire Italian pronoun system, as well as enlightening critiques of such traditional linguistic concepts as transitive/intransitive, reflexive, impersonal, passive, and subject. A special strength is the close attention to examples drawn from actual language use, together with quantitative data in support of the author’s analysis.”
“A richly compelling and highly innovative study of one of the most intractable problems in the syntax of Italian, and of Romance more generally. Davis offers a rigorous semantic analysis demonstrating that the received categories of traditional and formal syntax and semantics represent a blind alley, and that an analysis based on contextualized evidence transcending the boundaries of the sentence produces a much deeper understanding of the underlying principles that actually guide the use of language.”
“Do not be fooled by the title! Davis’s exquisite, well-written book deserves to be read by anyone and everyone interested in the semantic and pragmatic analysis of grammatical systems (no matter their own theoretical background).”
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