The substance and value of Italian si /

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Author / Creator:	Davis, Joseph, 1958- author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; volume 74 Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 74.
Subject:	Si (The Italian word) Italian language -- Etymology. Italian language -- Etymology. Si (The Italian word)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11759198

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ISBN:	9789027265272 9027265275 9789027215840 9027215847
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Davis, Joseph, 1958- Substance and value of Italian si. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027215840

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