Publication details
Le costruzioni condizionali coordinate in italiano contemporaneo
| Title in English | Coordinating conditional construction in contemporary Italian |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Actes du XXVIIe Congres international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (Nancy, 15-20 juillet 2013) |
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| Keywords | Conditional clauses; Coordination; Italian |
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| Description | We propose the analysis of a group of constructions that convey a predictive conditional semantics even though they are coded as non-subordinate structures (Eat and you'll get fat; Eat, you'll get fat; Stop eating or you'll get fat; (The more you eat, the more you'll get fat). A description of the formal and semantic characteristics of the constructions under examination will be provided in order to investigate their functional boundaries and the relations they have both with each other and with the canonical conditional construction. Particular attention will be devoted to 'comparative' constructions, which still lack a systematic description concerning Italian. Finally, some interpretative hypotheses are presented. |